Taiwan holds live-fire drills as tensions with China mount

Taiwan holds live-fire drills as tensions with China mount http://ift.tt/2FthNss January 30, 2018 at 12:35PM Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/1UaOSLt

Taiwanese troops Tuesday staged live-fire exercises simulating a response to an invasion, as China steppeds up pressure on the island's President Tsai Ing-wen and a row over airline routes escalated. The ministry did not specify that the annual drill simulated an invasion by China but said it was intended to "show determination to safeguard peace in the Taiwan Strait and national security". Tsai last month warned against what she called Beijing's "military expansion" -- the increase in Chinese air and naval drills around the island since she came to power in May 2016.

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