Taiwan's defence minister called on youths to join the army Monday after Chinese military aircraft came near the island over the weekend during a drill for the second time in the past month.
Saturday's incident saw more than 10 Chinese aircraft pass through the Miyako Strait in Japan's Okinawa chain as well as the Bashi Channel to the south of Taiwan, according to the defence ministry.
Officials gave no further detail on how close the planes had come to the island, but they did not enter Taiwan's airspace.
It comes as tense cross-strait relations have been further rattled by United States president-elect Donald Trump's unprecedented phone call with Taiwan's Beijing-sceptic president Tsai Ing-wen, and his suggestion Sunday that he could drop Washington's "one China" policy which guides relations with self-ruling Taiwan.
Taiwan's defence minister Feng Shih-kuan called the timing of China's air drill a coincidence, but warned the island is still at risk of military threat.
"China's actions must have political significance," Feng told reporters Monday.
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