China’s army filmed apparently preparing for conflict in Taiwan strait

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China’s army released a propaganda video showing soldiers preparing for a conflict in what appears to be the Taiwan strait. The one-and-a-half-minute video, published on the Eastern Theatre Command’s official WeChat account on Thursday, is titled “Reading the Strait” and shows soldiers in combat gear doing press-ups under crashing waves, a tank battalion driving into the sunset and troops running up sandy shores past anti-landing barricades, similar to those that dot Taiwan’s coast. The video is accompanied by a catchy ballad, with lyrics such as “go over the city gate and the high wall and take the freest way”, “don’t...