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China Taiwan Crisis LIVE Updates: Taiwan warns China drills show ambitions beyond island
10 Aug, 2022 | 12:06:20 AM IST
China Taiwan Crisis News Live: Taiwan warned Tuesday that Chinese military drills aren't just a rehearsal for an invasion of the self-governing island but also reflect ambitions to control large swaths of the western Pacific, as Taipei conducted its own exercises to underscore it's ready to defend itself. Angered by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's recent visit to Taiwan, China has sent military ships and planes across the midline that separates the two sides in the Taiwan Strait and launched missiles into waters surrounding the island. The drills, which began Thursday, have disrupted flights and shipping in one of the busiest zones for global trade. Ignoring calls to calm tensions, Beijing instead extended the exercises without announcing when they will end.
- Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said that beyond aiming to annex the island democracy, which split with the mainland amid civil war in 1949, China wants to establish its dominance in the western Pacific. That would include controlling of the East and South China Seas via the Taiwan Strait and imposing a blockade to prevent the U.S. and its allies from aiding Taiwan in the event of an attack, he told a news conference in Taipei.
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Digital focus of clients quite strong
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3 dead in shooting at Florida Narcotics Anonymous meeting
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Maharashtra CM
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Cabinet Expansion
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Sanjay Rathod sworn in
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Noida Police arrest absconding neta Shrikant Tyagi from Meerut
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BJP's Chandrakant Patil takes oath
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Team Shinde
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Defence PRO, Tezpur, Assam
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- No injury or any other damage reported.
Maharashtra Cabinet Expansion
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