PLA Posts 3 Sorties on Summit Day 1 (May 14) — All 3 Enter SW/Eastern ADIZ; 6 PLAN Vessels; Calibrated Pressure Maintained During Active Diplomacy

Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense reported 3 PLA aircraft sorties in its daily 06:00 local time snapshot on May 14, 2026 — the opening day of the Trump-Xi Beijing summit. All 3 sorties entered Taiwan's Air Defense Identification Zone in the southwestern and eastern sectors — a slight uptick from May 13's 2-sortie summit-eve pullback, but far below the pre-summit escalation levels. 6 PLAN vessels and 1 official ship continued operating around Taiwan, unchanged from May 13. The May 14 count continues the PLA's calibrated low-level presence during active diplomatic engagement — maintaining military signaling without the kind of escalation that would overshadow the summit. The pattern is consistent with PLA's established pressure-while-talking approach seen during the KMT Chair Cheng Li-wun visit (Apr 7-12: 1→2→6→7→17→2) and preceding major diplomatic meetings. The full May sortie sequence now reads: 4 (May 1) → 29 record (May 2) → 1 (May 3) → 2 (May 4) → 1 (May 5) → 0 (May 6) → 22 (May 7) → 12 (May 8) → 8 (May 9) → 12 (May 10) → 7 (May 11) → 9 (May 12) → 2 (May 13) → 3 (May 14). ROC Armed Forces monitored and deployed CAP aircraft, naval vessels, and coastal missile systems in response.