Monday, 4 June 2018 ()
A Taiwanese fighter jet went missing in northern Taiwan on Monday at the start of the island’s biggest annual military drills. Taiwan’s air force said its base in Hualien on the island’s east coast lost contact with the F-16 jet at around 1.43pm after the aircraft had taken part in an exercise further north. Analysts said the suspected crash could undermine efforts to use the drills to reassure voters ahead of elections later this year and amid ongoing cross-strait tensions....