[ronnyquest]

EPIC FAIL!

[Nick Danger]

And how 'bout that Putin? Guy can't get no respect. He sends a friggin' bomber over Taiwan. The Taiwanese don't even send up a fighter. "Just a Russian bomber. It's harmless."

[50cal Smokepole]

...a Tupolev TU-95 long-range strategic bomber...

Strategic bomber? A Bear? Most likely rigged with electronic snooping gear. Dang nuisance that needs just one Mach 1+ pass by a -16 to make it go away.

[autumnraine]

Am I the only one who feels like we are sitting on the edge of WW3?

Between Asia, Eastern Europe and Isreal vs everybody else, I’m on edge.

[ReneeLynn]

Someone had orders NOT to intercept it I’m guessing.

[BradyLS]

Could’ve been a weird, political, national sovereignty stand-off between Taiwan and the PRC.

Since PRC claims Taiwan, then maybe Taiwan controllers waited to see what the PRC would do about a Russian plane crossing “their” (PRC) air space. Since they did nothing, Taiwan warned off the intruder without assuming an aggressive, “independent” posture (radio message rather than air intercept) that the PRC could bitch about.

[Tainan]

""Our judgment was that since the unidentified aircraft was harmless, we handled the incident according to the standard operation procedure. We demanded the aircraft leave immediately." "

Strangely enough, if one can understand the Taiwanese concept of logic, this makes a weird kind of sense.
Of course in reality this is asinine and brainless...but what it means is..."We can't do sh!t about this so we'll just say its OK, we had whatever it was under control and we gave it permission to leave."

...its a 'face' thing.

[Quix]

DOH!