China's war games around Taiwan: punishing separatists or rehearsing invasion?
China has staged some of its largest-ever military drills encircling Taiwan, simulating blockades and strikes. Beijing says it is deterring 'separatists'; Taipei says it is rehearsing an invasion of a democracy.
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Beijing frames the encirclement drills as a lawful, measured warning to 'Taiwan independence' forces and their foreign backers — punishing separatism and signalling that reunification is the only path.
Taipei sees the same drills — simulated blockades, strikes and encirclement on three sides — as rehearsals for an invasion of a democracy, with President Lai vowing to defend the island's sovereignty.
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