PENGHU, Taiwan - Taiwan fired warning shots at a Chinese drone which buzzed an offshore islet on Tuesday (Aug 30) shortly after President Tsai Ing-wen said she had ordered Taiwan's military to take 'strong countermeasures' against what she termed Chinese provocations. It was the first time such warning shots have been fired during a period of heightened tensions between China...
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China has conducted exercises around Taiwan after U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited the island this month against Beijing's wishes. But they added they were monitoring the situation closely and were concerned about accidents in general. The Kinmen islands are at their closest point just a few hundred metres from Chinese territory, opposite China's Xiamen and Quanzhou cities.Officers told reporters accompanying Tsai that warships and fighter jets based at Penghu - which lies in the Taiwan Strait closer to Taiwan than China - have been going out armed with live ammunition since China began its exercises this month, though they have not opened fire.
Taiwan's military termed the video information warfare, accusing China of exaggeration and saying it was not true Chinese forces had come near the islands.
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