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The United States will hold military exercises in the Taiwan Strait in the coming weeks, despite growing tensions with China over the island. It concerns exercises in the air and at sea, a senior US official said on Friday. Kurt Campbell, the White House coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs and an adviser to president Joe Biden, said that despite the tensions, U.S. forces “will continue to fly, sail and operate where international law allows, consistent with our longstanding commitment to freedom of navigation.” Earlier Friday, thousands of soldiers from the US, Indonesia and allies from the region held a sharpshooter military...
