Taiwan's presidential election on Saturday has much of the world focused on how the outcome could potentially tip Beijing into taking its long-promised military action against the democratic island nation, which China claims as its own.
The People's Liberation Army launched a series of spy balloons over the island as the election nears, and China commentator Gordon Chang noted on social media platform X that the balloons were an attempt by Beijing to influence the election. Three of the balloons flew near Ching-Chuan-Kang airbase, which houses much of Taiwan's air force.
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