Vice President William Lai, the front-runner to become Taiwan’s president in elections in January, returned from the United States on Friday.
Lai, the front-runner to become Taiwan’s president in elections in January, returned from the United States on Friday. He officially made only stopovers on his way to and from Paraguay but gave speeches while in the U.S.views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, despite the strong objections of the island’s government.
The PLA’s Eastern Theatre Command said it was holding joint exercises and training of naval and air forces, focussing on ship-aircraft coordination, seizing control and anti-submarine drills to the north and southwest of Taiwan to test the forces’ “actual combat capabilities”. In text accompanying the footage, set to a thumping orchestral score, it said the drills were to “test the actual combat capabilities of joint operations of forces in the theatre”.
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