{"podcast":{"title":"Talking Taiwan","slug":"talking-taiwan-898069","podcast_index_feed_id":898069,"rss_url":"https://talkingtaiwan.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://talkingtaiwan.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/5/4/e/7/54e79f55069d8f3d/Talking_Taiwan_1400x1400.png","author":"Felicia Lin","episode_count":323,"summary":"Talking Taiwan is a Golden Crane Podcast Award Winner, and has been shortlisted in the 2024 International Women's Podcast Awards \"Moment of Visionary Leadership\" category. In 2025, it was nominated for the 12th Annual T.O. Webfest Awards in the category of \"Best Ensemble Cast in a Podcast\". Hosted by Felicia Lin, Talking Taiwan is the longest running, independently produced Taiwan-related podcast that covers political news related to Taiwan and stories connected to Taiwan and Taiwan's global community. To learn more about Talking Taiwan visit: www.talkingtaiwan.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-07T22:18:50.519526+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talking-taiwan-898069"},"episode":{"title":"Ep 340 | China's Alarming Gray Zone Tactics Around Taiwan and its Neighboring Nations in Asia","slug":"ep-340-china-s-alarming-gray-zone-tactics-around-taiwan-and-its-neighboring-nations-in-asia","published_at":"2026-02-07T11:17:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talking-taiwan-898069/ep-340-china-s-alarming-gray-zone-tactics-around-taiwan-and-its-neighboring-nations-in-asia","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talking-taiwan-898069","url":"https://talkingtaiwan.com/chinas-alarming-gray-zone-tactics-around-taiwan-and-its-neighboring-nations-in-asia-ep-340/","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/talkingtaiwan/Ep_340_Chinas_Alarming_Gray_Zone_Tactics_Around_Taiwan_.mp3?dest-id=215522","summary":"Back in April 2021 we covered news about a record breaking 25 Chinese air force aircraft including fighters and nuclear-capable bombers that entered Taiwan's air defense identification zone (ADIZ). At the time 25 seemed like an alarming number. It was the largest incursion by Chinese military planes into Taiwan's ADIZ to date. Related Links: https://talkingtaiwan.com/chinas-alarming-gray-zone-tactics-around-taiwan-and-its-neighboring-nations-in-asia-ep-340/ To be clear these sorts of activities had been going on long before this and long before September of 2020 which is about the time that Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense started to publicly report China's incursions. China's People's Liberation Army has shown no signs of letting up. The PLA's gray zone tactics have also included the use of drones and balloons. Incursions by warplanes and naval ships into the airspace and waters surrounding Taiwan are now a daily occurrence. And they have completely shattered the record 25 aircraft in Taiwan's ADIZ many times over. Major military exercises have included the Joint Sword-2024A. Three days after Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te's inauguration on May 20 of 2024, China's PLA conducted two days of military exercises in the air and sea space around Taiwan. More recently, at the end of 2025 on December 29 and 30, People's Republic of China (PRC) military forces carried out a large-scale exercise in the air and ocean areas around Taiwan called \"Justice Mission-2025.\" These two days of PLA military exercises involved at least 200 warplanes. Unfortunately these types of gray zone tactics by China have become commonplace and while they have been more widely reported on, even more troubling are the other gray zone tactics that the PRC has been levying on Taiwan, which include…","meta_description":"Back in April 2021 we covered news about a record breaking 25 Chinese air force aircraft including fighters and nuclear-capable bombers that entered Taiwa…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2313,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/talking-taiwan-898069/episodes/ep-340-china-s-alarming-gray-zone-tactics-around-taiwan-and-its-neighboring-nations-in-asia/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/talking-taiwan-898069/ep-340-china-s-alarming-gray-zone-tactics-around-taiwan-and-its-neighboring-nations-in-asia.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}