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04.08.2022
THEME: WORLD

China started live-fire military drills around Taiwan

After the visit to Taiwan of White House Speaker Pelosi the chinese government announced military drills, which have now started. Military excercises are intended to show that the PLA (People Liberation Army) is capable of blockading the entire island and of resolving the Taiwan question through non-peaceful ways. While western news report the drills as mere excercises without evidence of such power, eastern journals present them more seriously as a "rehearsal of unification operation", suggesting that if such drills continue it will constitute a substantial blockage of Taiwan. The situation is supposed to not change for at least the next five days. Live-fire is expected across the Taiwan strait thorugh the eastern side of the island.