The Philippines should reconsider its policy in dealing with China amid its continued refusal to respect the country’s sovereignty in the West Philippine Sea and the rising tension in Taiwan, Sen. Risa Hontiveros said on Wednesday.
Patriotic badges showing Winnie the Pooh being punched in the face by a Taiwanese black bear — a humorous dig at China’s leader Xi Jinping — have gone viral across the self-ruled island.
China has wrapped up three days of military drills around Taiwan, its largest since August, in a show of force it described as a rehearsal to “seal off” the self-ruled island.
Chinese warships and aircraft were still operating around Taiwan on Tuesday, the island’s defence ministry said, a day after Beijing declared an end to its massive war games.
Taiwanese fisherman Wang Chia-wen contends with Chinese incursions every day, although not usually the kind staged by Beijing’s military during its latest round of war games.
China is brandishing a wide array of military equipment and weapons as it conducts drills around Taiwan intended to intimidate the self-ruled island.
China’s three-day military drills dubbed “Joint Sword” have seen warships and fighter jets simulate targeted strikes on self-ruled Taiwan in response to the island’s president meeting the US House speaker.
At a beach on a windswept Taiwanese archipelago just a few miles from mainland China, Lin Ke-qiang offers a gloomy prediction: should war ever break out with Beijing, his island does not stand a chance.
China declared it had “successfully completed” three days of war games around Taiwan on Monday, capping a show of force that saw it simulate targeted strikes and practise a blockade of the self-ruled island.
China was due to hold live-fire drills on Monday to round off three days of military exercises in response to Taiwan’s president meeting with the US House speaker.
