TAIPEI (REUTERS) - Taiwan's armed forces carried out live fire drills on its west coast on Thursday (July 2) practising 'enemy annihilation on the shore', ahead of its main annual exercises later this month and as China steps up military activities near the island it claims.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TAIPEI - Taiwan's armed forces carried out live fire drills on its west coast on Thursday practising"enemy annihilation on the shore", ahead of its main annual exercises later this month and as China steps up military activities near the island it claims.
China claims the democratic island as its own territory, and has never renounced the use of force to bring it under Beijing's control. Taiwan has shown no interest in being run by China. They involved Taiwan's most modern fighter jet the F-16V, Apache attack helicopters, tanks and artillery, which fired live rounds, the ministry added, showing pictures of plumes of water in the sea where ordinance had hit their targets.
Taiwan later this month holds its main annual Han Kuang military exercise, which was postponed from earlier this year due to the new coronavirus.
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