TAIPEI, Taiwan — China despatched dozens of warplanes “fully loaded with live ammunition” and several other military destroyers and frigates throughout Taiwan and its outlying islands on Thursday, launching large-scale army drills as “punishment for separatist acts” later the foundation of Taiwan’s unused president, Lai Ching-te.
The forces had been simulating moves on “high value ‘enemy’ targets” in army drills that run thru Friday, in step with Chinese language climate broadcaster CCTV.