China military says holds combat exercises around Taiwan as US senator visits island | The Straits Times – ChinaPulse.com – China News, Data, Media Intelligence and Insights

News Snapshot: BEIJING (REUTERS) – China’s military recently held multi-unit joint combat readiness exercises, patrols and combat drills in the sea and airspace around Taiwan, the Eastern Theatre Command of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) said in a statement on Friday (July 8). The exercises were organised in response to “collusion and provocations” by the United States and Taiwan, Wu Qian, spokesman for China’s ministry of defence said, according to the ministry’s official Weibo account on Friday. Several Chinese fighter jets crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait on Friday in the northern part of the strait, a Taiwan…