BEIJING - China will hold three days of military exercises around Taiwan from Saturday (April 8), the People's Liberation Army's Eastern Theatre Command announced, the day after Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen returned from a trip to the United States. China will hold 'combat readiness patrols' and exercises around in the Taiwan Strait and to the north, south and east of...
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen meets the US Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, US, on April 5, 2023.BEIJING - China will hold three days of military exercises around Taiwan from Saturday , the People's Liberation Army's Eastern Theatre Command announced, the day after Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen returned from a trip to the United States.
There was no immediate response from Taiwan's government, though the island's defence ministry said on Saturday morning that in the previous 24 hours it had spotted four Chinese aircraft in Taiwan's air defence zone, not an unusual number. "All countermeasures taken by the Chinese government belong to China's legitimate and legal right to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity," it said.
Taiwanese officials had expected a less severe reaction to the McCarthy meeting, given it took place in the United States, but they had said they could not rule out the possibility of China staging more drills.
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