Taiwan reported 45 Chinese warplanes in its airspace within 24 hours, according to its defense ministry on Wednesday.
The record number of Chinese daily sorties this year comes ahead of President-elect Lai Ching-te’s inauguration on May 20.
The ministry said that “26 of the aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait,” referring to a line bisecting the 180-kilometer (110-mile) waterway separating Taiwan and China. Beijing does not recognize this unofficial boundary.
Six Chinese Navy vessels were also detected, according to the statement.
Taipei emphasized it was monitoring the situation closely and urged Beijing to exercise self-restraint.
“Since late April they have become more and more provocative,” the senior Taiwanese security official said.
Its just “Ukraine” not “The Ukraine”
than can actually be a transition Error.
tldr;
In my language (german) ukraine is feminine. Die ukraine. And as such, you always have to use the pronoun (die).
You can’t for example say “USA haben gewählt” since the US too is feminine. It’s always “Die USA haben gewählt” (The USA have voted)
So in german you say “Die ukraine ist nur eine Sideshow” which will then become “the Ukraine is just a sideshow”
Which is a very Cynical take btw but i fear that it could be somewhat true.
You can however say just the countries name if it is Neutral (das). “Deutschland hat gewählt” “germany has voted”. Here it would actually be weird to use “das Deutschland”. Only Exception is the United Kindom (Das vereinigte Königreich). It’s constituents (england, scottland, wales) however will then again be without the pronoun. “Schottland hat heute gewählt”
The Ukraine is the Russian way of referring to the country. That is why this has mostly disappeared in western media. In German many countries get an article so the translation is indeed tricky as it puts back something in English that refers to something the Ukranians requested to be removed.
But in German it is indeed the normal way of referring to countries. You also provided an eloquent response… keep being awesome!
Pretty funny come to think of this… I can imagine stuff like this can really blow out of proportion in official talks.
Fair enough, thanks for the information! I was just going based off what I’ve heard Ukrainians say about that subject is all.
The Ukraine “operation”
I just oopsied a word, but I do genuinely appreciate the heads up on grammar.