China's military said it had carried out combat drills around Taiwan, the second such exercises in less than a month
China views democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory and has been ramping up military, political and economic pressure to assert those claims.
The aim of the exercises was to test joint combat capabilities and "resolutely counter the provocative actions of external forces and Taiwan independence separatist forces", it added in a brief statement. Some of those 28 crossed the Taiwan Strait median line, an unofficial buffer between the two sides, including Su-30 and J-16 fighters, while two nuclear-capable H-6 bombers flew to the south of Taiwan, according to a ministry provided map., with Taiwan reporting that 43 Chinese aircraft crossed the Taiwan Strait's median line.
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