China said May 8 that it had been conducting since about a week ago what it called a realistic combat training mission for the annexation of Taiwan, encircling the island with all sorts of warships, including the Liaoning aircraft carrier group, and warplanes, watched “provocatively” by the navies of the USA and Japan.
With the carrier group to Taiwan’s east, the PLA also dispatched an increased number of different types of warplanes and additional warships from the Chinese mainland west of the island of Taiwan, effectively surrounding and enclosing the island under the watch of US and Japanese aircraft carriers, which are serving as “perfect practice partners” for the PLA drills, reported China’s official globaltimes.cn May 8, citing analysts.
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