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China plans to close airspace north of Taiwan next week, the self-ruled island’s defence ministry said on Wednesday, which could disrupt flights in the region amid rounds of intense military drills by Beijing. When asked about an earlier Reuters report on the airspace’s closing, Yan Yu-hsien, deputy chief of the general staff for intelligence from Taiwan’s defence ministry, said the “no-fly zone” would fall within the country’s air defence identification zone (ADIZ), about 85 nautical miles north of its shores. “We all know that there are many international flights to Japan and the United States from Taiwan’s north,” Yan said,...