Taiwan says may shoot down Chinese drones in South China Sea, East Asia News & Top Stories


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TAIPEI (REUTERS) - Taiwan has spotted Chinese drones circling the Taipei-controlled Pratas Islands in the South China Sea and may shoot them down if they stray too close, a government minister said on Wednesday (April 7), a move that could dramatically increase tensions with Beijing. Speaking at parliament, Mr Lee Chung-wei, who heads the Ocean Affairs Council under whose purview the Coast Guard falls, said that they had recently spotted Chinese drones circling the Pratas, though they have not flown over the islands. "They have never entered our restricted waters and airspace, they've just flown around them at a certain...