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Shanghai: China’s armed forces conducted another round of exercises near Taiwan last week to improve joint combat operations, the People’s Liberation Army said on Monday, after the Chinese-claimed island reported a spike in activity. Taiwan has complained about persistent Chinese military activity around it for the past two years, mostly concentrated in the southern and southwestern part of the island’s Air Defense Identification Zone, or ADIZ. Taiwan’s air force scrambled to warn 18 Chinese aircraft entering its air defense zone on Friday, and reported further incursions on Saturday and Sunday, though with fewer planes. The Eastern Theater Command of the...
