BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Taiwan Affairs Office said on Monday that Chinese military exercise near Taiwan was “resolute punishment” for Taiwan President Lai Ching-te’s “continuous promotion of separatism.” If the Lai administration “dares to provoke and play with fire, it will only bring about its own destruction,” a spokesperson for the office said in a […]
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China says military exercise near Taiwan was punishment for ‘separatism’
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Taiwan Affairs Office said on Monday that Chinese military exercise near Taiwan was “resolute punishment” for Taiwan President Lai Ching-te’s “continuous promotion of separatism.”
If the Lai administration “dares to provoke and play with fire, it will only bring about its own destruction,” a spokesperson for the office said in a statement.
China views democratically governed Taiwan as its territory, a claim rejected by the government in Taipei.
(Reporting by Beijing Newsroom)