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TAIPEI — Taiwan on Tuesday unveiled plans for its biggest live-fire military exercise since 2008, aimed at reviewing the island’s defense capability against a simulated Chinese invasion.
The operation will take place April 17 on the Penghu islands in the middle of the 180-kilometer (110-mile) strait that separates Taiwan from the Chinese mainland. The archipelago is used to control major shipping lanes linking the South China Sea and East China Sea.
“The main purpose of the drill is to review the defense capability of the troops stationed in Penghu,” Maj. Gen. Tseng Fu-hsing told reporters.
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