00:00Taiwan is reporting a big uptick in Chinese military activity around the country.
00:05The defense ministry says it monitored 28 Chinese aircraft near Taiwan on Tuesday.
00:11Those numbers include fighter jets, support planes and drones.
00:1621 of them came closer to Taiwan's main island.
00:19The aircraft operated alongside Chinese naval vessels to carry out so-called joint combat readiness patrols.
00:26This is the second instance of higher than average Chinese activity in the Taiwan Strait this week
00:31after more than two weeks of few or no aircraft flying nearby.
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