Taiwan starts military drills amid China exercise


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Taiwan has sounded the alarm over ongoing Chinese military drills in the Taiwan Strait, accusing Beijing of trying to change the decades long status quo in the region. Taiwan launched live-fire military exercises of its own on Tuesday, as military drills by China continued into the week. Taipei launched its drills shortly after 0040 GMT with the firing of target flares and artillery and ended just under an hour later at 01:30 GMT, said Lou Woei-jye, the spokesman for Taiwan's Eighth Army Corps. Lou told the AFP news agency on Monday that military drills were scheduled exercises and weren't a...