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Taiwan is reassured that the Trump administration has made deterring a Chinese seizure of the island a military priority, former officials and analysts said Monday, after months of mounting concern t...
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The Chinese military practiced live-fire strikes in the East China Sea in an escalation of ongoing surprise drills near Taiwan, the People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command said in a stateme...
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If the new barges go into service, they could expand China’s options for where and when to land on Taiwan, making Mr. Xi’s threat of a possible invasion more plausible.
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