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China has warned against "external forces" backing Taiwan's independence, after launching extensive live-fire drills around the island. It comes just 11 days after the US announced its largest-ever arms sale to Taipei, worth US$11 billion. Taiwan says it spotted 89 Chinese military aircraft, along with 28 warships and coast guard vessels, encircling the island. It adds that this is the highest number of Chinese aircraft reported for a single day since October last year. Tan Si Hui reports. 

BEIJING (AP) — China's decision to bring serious firepower to bear for military drills in the waters off Taiwan this week has deep roots — both in the past several weeks and the past several decades. The island is the most sensitive political subject for China. It has been ever since Taiwan split from the mainland in 1949 after a civil war. Today, though the island governs itself, China claims it as sovereign territory . China has often held military drills around Taiwan, both around what it considers specific provocations and in general. Here's a look at th e context around the latest drills. How Taiwan came to be governed separately China was ruled by the Kuomintang, or Nationalists, from 1927 to 1949. When civil war broke out, and Mao Zedong's communists overthrew the Nationalists, they fled to Taiwan, off the coast of southern China. There, they set up a government, and it evolved into a multiparty democracy that h...

The Chinese military released two posters titled "Shields of Justice: Smashing Illusions," and "Arrows of Justice: Control and Denial", along with a third graphic depicting four locations across the island with targets locking on, following the drill announcement. China's state broadcaster said the exercises would focus on sealing off Taiwan's vital deep-water Port of Keelung to the island's north and Kaohsiung to Taiwan's south, the island's largest port city. While the PLA practised port blockades around Taiwan during war games last year, this marks the first time it has publicly stated that drills around the island are aimed at "deterrence" of outside military intervention. The Japanese prime minister's remarks triggered a surge in Chinese messaging stressing its sovereignty claims. Chinese leader Xi Jinping told US President Donald Trump in November that Taiwan's "return to China" after World War II was central ...

By Simone McCarthy, Wayne Chang, Yong Xiong, Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — China's military announced Monday it was mobilizing army, navy, air and rocket units around Taiwan for "major military drills" aimed at sending a "serious warning" against any push for Taiwanese independence and "external" forcing interfering with the island. The exercises – dubbed "Justice Mission-2025" – would test combat readiness and "blockade and control of key ports and critical areas," China's Eastern Theater Command said. Live-fire activities would take place in five maritime and airspace zones encircling the island, according to information released by the command. Taiwan's government condemned the drills, accusing China of "military intimidation," while its defense ministry said it was "fully on guard" and would "take concrete action to defend the values of democracy and freedom."...

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TENSION WITH CHINA GROWS The budget announcement comes as Japan's row with China escalates following Takaichi's remark in November that the Japanese military could get involved if China were to take action against Taiwan. The disagreement escalated this month when Chinese aircraft carrier drills near southwestern Japan prompted Tokyo to protest when Chinese aircraft locked their radar on Japanese aircraft , which is considered possible preparation for firing missiles. The defence ministry, already alarmed by China's rapid expansion of operations in the Pacific, will open a new office dedicated to studying operations, equipment and other necessities for Japan to deal with China's Pacific activity. Two Chinese aircraft carriers were spotted in June almost simultaneously operating near the southern Japanese island of Iwo Jima for the first time, fueling Tokyo' s concern about Beijing's rapidly expanding military activity far beyond its borders and areas around...

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