Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense said that after several incidents with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) believed to have flown in from China, the island's armed forces deployed anti-drone defenses on the offshore islands of Kinmen and Matsu.. It is reported by Taiwan News.

Drones were reportedly spotted over Taiwan-controlled islands off the coast of China's Fujian province for several days, with one shot down over the sea in Kinmen County on Thursday, Sept. 1.

The emergence of UAVs is seen as another sign of China's provocative behavior, in addition to recent large-scale military maneuvers and almost daily Chinese military aircraft incursions into Taiwan's air defense identification zone..

On Friday, Taiwanese soldiers stationed in Kinmen County, 10 kilometers off the coast of China, fired rockets several times to ward off Chinese drones..

The island's military leadership said it favors a flexible response to China's drone incursion, adding that they have armed soldiers on the islands with anti-drone capabilities.. Anti-drone cannons block the frequency used by the ground station to communicate with the drone, causing the UAV to go out of control and crash.

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Earlier, Taiwan said 14 Chinese fighter jets flew across the median line of the Taiwan Strait..

This line usually serves as an unofficial territorial barrier..

It was also reported that Taiwan fired a warning shot at a Chinese drone that circled the island, shortly after President Cai Ying-wen said she had ordered Taiwan's military to "

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