Flight Route To Taiwan

China today tested a proposed new flight route in the Taiwan Strait in a plan that had sparked a fierce backlash from the island over security concerns, officials said.

Japan's two biggest airlines have bowed to a government request to stop filing flight plans demanded by China on routes through a new Chinese air defence zone, whose creation has ratcheted up tensions over the bitterly disputed region.

China today tested a proposed new flight route in the Taiwan Strait in a plan that had sparked a fierce backlash from the island over security concerns, officials said.

Japan's two biggest airlines have bowed to a government request to stop filing flight plans demanded by China on routes through a new Chinese air defence zone, whose creation has ratcheted up tensions over the bitterly disputed region.