Taiwan’s Defence Ministry on Wednesday said it had registered 45 Chinese warplanes in Taiwan’s airspace within 24 hours. The number marked a recent record high in the number of Chinese daily sorties this year. The new record number comes just days before the presidential inauguration of Lai Ching-te from the independence-leading Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), to take place on May 20. Among the detected aircraft, 26 of them crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait and entered Taiwan’s northern and south-western air space, the ministry said on Wednesday. Meanwhile, six Chinese Navy vess…