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The heavily fortified Kinmen Islands are part of Taiwan but lie close to the south-eastern coast of China
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According to the Ministry of Defense, the website was temporarily taken offline after a hacker attack.
It is working closely with other authorities to improve the country's cybersecurity as tensions with China rise.
Several government websites had already been attacked at the beginning of the week, including the presidential office.
According to the authorities, the cyber attacks came from abroad, some were launched by China and Russia, reports the Reuters news agency.
According to the Ministry of Defense on Thursday, several Chinese aircraft entered Taiwanese airspace during the night.
It was probably a drone.
They entered the area twice on Wednesday evening, around 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. (local time), Maj. Gen. Chang Zone-sung of the Kinmen Defense Command told Reuters on Thursday.
“We immediately set off flares to warn and drive them away.
After that they turned back.
They came into our security zone and that's why we expelled them."
He assumes that the drones were used to collect information about Taiwan's security measures.
The heavily fortified Kinmen Islands are politically part of Taiwan, but lie just off China's southeastern coast near the city of Xiamen.
Taiwan is on high alert as China plans to hold target practice maneuvers around the island until Sunday in response to the visit of US House Speaker Pelosi.
Six restricted areas were designated for this purpose.
Pelosi arrived in the democratically governed island republic on Tuesday as the highest-ranking visitor from the United States in a quarter of a century.
In the meantime she has left again.
The big seven western industrialized nations (G7) have expressed concern about China's behavior.
A joint statement by the G7 foreign ministers, published by the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin on Wednesday, said: "There is no reason to use a visit as a pretext for aggressive military activities in the Taiwan Strait."
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