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Taiwan’s Defence Ministry on Thursday said it had registered 32 Chinese military aircraft in its airspace within 24 hours. Among the detected aircraft, 20 of them crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait and entered Taiwan’s south-western, south-eastern, and eastern air space, the ministry said. The ministry said it had also detected five vessels. Taiwan had tasked Combat air patrol aircraft, Navy vessels, and land-based missile systems to respond to these activities, the ministry said. Taiwan regularly reports such actions by Chinese forces. This year’s record number of Chinese aircraft d…