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Taiwan said Saturday that China’s military drills appear to simulate an attack on the self-ruled island, after multiple Chinese warships and aircraft crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait following U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei that infuriated Beijing.

Beleaguered Taiwan on Saturday appealed for international help as it grappled with “simulated attacks” by the Chinese military around the self-ruled island, as Beijing stepped up provocative drills and warplane incursions in the Taiwan Straits in retaliation for US House Speaker Nancy Pe

East Asian nation says it detected multiple Chinese aircraft and naval vessels taking part in military drills around the Taiwan Strait on Saturday

Beijing broke the tacit rules observed for decades by armed forces on both sides of the Taiwan Strait on Thursday (Aug 4), the first day of its unprecedented military drills. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) fired dozens of ballistic missiles directly over Taiwan, sent warplanes and vessels across the median line that divides the strait, flew drones over Taiwanese airspace...

The median line in the strait was established in 1955 as a de facto sea border, separating mainland China from Taiwan.

China is trying to create a blockade around key shipping ports in Taiwan with its military operations.

The world’s most powerful democracies have slammed China for “increasing tensions and destabilising the region” over its response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. The G7’s top diplomats on Wednesday said they were “concerned by recent and announced threatening actions by the People’s Republic of China, particularly live-fire exercises and economic coercion, which risk unnecessary escalation”. The...

Zhang Junshe, a senior research fellow at the Naval Research Academy of the PLA, told the state-run Global Times that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) drills from Thursday to Sunday around the island of Taiwan will feature its first aircraft carrier group deterrence exercise, which will establish a maritime multidimensional combat system.

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Taiwan’s Defence Ministry has confirmed that China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) fired “several Tongfeng-class guided missiles” into waters north-east