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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Helen Davidson in Taipei

China preparing fresh pretext to practise future attacks, says Taiwan foreign minister

Chinese military helicopters fly past Pingtan island, one of mainland China's closest point from Taiwan, ahead of massive military drills off Taiwan.
Taiwan’s foreign minister has said China is looking for a pretext to practise a future attack, after massive military drills were carried out in August this year. Photograph: Héctor Retamal/AFP/Getty Images

Taiwan’s government believes China is preparing to find another “pretext for practising their future attack” on the island, its foreign minister has said, after a record-breaking year of military threats and incursions.

Joseph Wu also suggested cross-strait communications may diminish even further now that Xi Jinping has secured his third term, with last month’s extraordinary political purges of rival Communist party members severing the few unofficial ties remaining.

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