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BEIJING — China has announced that it has deployed a “combat preparedness patrol” across the Taiwan Strait in response to a visit by US congressmen to the island claimed by Beijing. The island has long been a hotbed of tension between the United States and China, which considers it one of its provinces. It has a democratic system, although the United Nations does not recognize Taiwan, of 23 million people, as an independent state. In this difficult context, US lawmakers arrived in Taiwan on Thursday as a show of support for the island’s authorities, viewed by Beijing with suspicion, as...
