China declares it has 'successfully completed' three days of war games around Taiwan, after deploying dozens of aircraft to launch simulated strikes and an aerial blockade.
The deployment of the Milius immediately triggered a condemnation from China, which said the vessel had "illegally intruded" into its territorial waters.
Close Chinese ally Russia defended the drills, with a Kremlin spokesperson saying Beijing had a "sovereign right" to respond to what Moscow called "provocative acts".On Beigan island, part of Taiwan's Matsu archipelago that is within sight of China's mainland, 60-year-old chef Lin Ke-qiang said he did not want war.
China and Taiwan split at the end of a civil war in 1949 and China views democratic Taiwan as part of its territory which it has vowed to take one day.But for decades it has sold weapons to Taiwan to help ensure its self-defence, and offered political support. Footage of an air force aircraft taking part in a combat readiness patrol around Taiwan is shown at a shopping centre in Beijing.
Ms Tsai responded to the drills by pledging to work with "the US and other like-minded countries" in the face of "continued authoritarian expansionism".Monday's exercises were to include live-fire drills off the rocky coast of China's Fujian province, about 80 kilometres south of the Matsu islands and 190 kilometres from Taipei, maritime authorities said on Saturday.
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