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TAIPEI -- China's military exercises on Thursday and Friday were only the latest step in a monthslong effort to build pressure on Taiwan's new President Lai Ching-te, analysts said, as Beijing's forces practiced mock missile attacks and other operations.
BEIJING/TAIPEI — China staged mock missile strikes and dispatched fighter jets carrying live missiles and bombers on Friday, state television CCTV said, as part of two-day exercises Beijing has said were launched to punish Taiwan's new president, Lai Ching-te.
MANILA — The situation in the Taiwan Strait, where China has carried out military exercises, is an "internal matter," Philippine Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said on Friday (May 24), declining to comment on drills that Taiwan has condemned.
China's latest war exercises around Taiwan risk escalating cross-strait tensions — but war remains unlikely, political observers say.
“Taiwan is one of the most sensitive issues in US-China relations,” Gan said at the Nikkei Forum in Tokyo. “Any clash in the Taiwan Strait will have dire consequences not just for the parties involved, but the entire world.”
Officials of Batanes, a province in the Philippines’ northernmost tip facing Taiwan, say they have a game plan in place since last year to prepare for any conflict in the Taiwan Strait amid ongoing military drills by mainland China in the area.
BEIJING — China's military started its second day of war games around Taiwan on May 24, with drills to test its ability to "seize power" and control key areas, exercises it has said were launched to punish Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te.
TAIPEI — The United States and several of its allies, including Britain, Canada, Australia, Germany and Japan, issued a joint statement on Friday (May 24) calling on Taiwan to be allowed to take part in a key meeting of the World Health Organisation this month.