Chinese military launches drills around Taiwan as 'warning' after top island official visits U.S.

Open this photo in gallery: A screen broadcasts news footage of an Air Force aircraft taking part in military drills by the Eastern Theatre Command of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) around Taiwan, in a shopping area in Beijing, China August 19, 2023.TINGSHU WANG/Reuters The Chinese military launched drills around Taiwan on Saturday as a "stern warning" over what it called collusion between "separatists and foreign forces," its Defence Ministry said, days after the island's vice president stopped over in the United States. Taiwanese Vice President William Lai's recent trip to Paraguay to reinforce relations with his government's last diplomatic…