Why China Is Playing a Game of Aerial 'Chicken' with Taiwan These operations are a small part of Beijing’s regular military activity near Taipei, which has increased in recent months. A group of twenty Chinese Shenyang J-16 twinjet airplanes and Chengdu J-10 fighter jets have intruded into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) within the past few days. Taiwan News recently reported that ten of the J-16 twinjet airplanes and six of the J-10 fighter jets “infringed on Taiwan’s ADIZ.” The English-language news organization cited Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense and noted that these aircraft were followed by another four...