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“Taiwan is a part of China and there is no such thing as a ‘median line of the Taiwan Straits,’” Jiang Bin, a spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Defense, said on Monday in response to DPP’s hype over W121 air route. “The DPP authorities, for their own party interests, are using this to hype the so-called ‘military threat from the mainland,’ attempting to create security anxiety, heighten confrontation, and obstruct cross-Straits exchanges, which is unpopular and will not succeed,” Jiang added.