Taiwan scrambled assets from its air force on March 14 to warn away an incursion of 13 Chinese military aircraft which flew into its air defense identification zone (ADIZ). The incursion is the latest in a two-year campaign of harassment and intimidation by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as it seeks to coerce Taiwan leadership away from ties with the West and to give up its democratic government. The last large-scale incursion this year took place in late January, when 39 Chinese aircraft crossed into Taiwan’s ADIZ. The ADIZ is not the airspace directly over Taiwan but the immediately surrounding area in which aircraft identification and location information is controlled for the sake of national security. Scrambling aircraft and other military assets to respond to repeated CCP incursions come at a significant cost to Taiwan and, in 2020, the associated monetary costs of such responses accounted for nearly nine percent …