Taiwan says China conducts second day of exercises nearby

TAIPEI, July 12 (Reuters) – China’s air force and navy staged a second day of large-scale exercises with fighter jets, bombers and warships to Taiwan’s south and southwest on Wednesday, the island’s defence ministry said, as Beijing keeps up its military pressure. While China has not commented on the exercises, they are happening less than two weeks before Taiwan stages its own annual drills and as NATO holds a summit at which alliance leaders said China challenges its interests, security and values with its “ambitions and coercive policies”. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has over…