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Mainland conducts more drills around Taiwan

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On Monday and Tuesday, the People’s Liberation Army's (PLA) Eastern Theater Command conducted live-fire drills around Taiwan.
The proximate cause: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s first official trip to Asia, during which he visited Guam, the Philippines, and Japan.

In Manila, Hegseth pledged to...