A woman walks past a Taiwanese national flag at Maritime Plaza in Keelung on Oct 22 China's military began a live fire exercise near Taiwan. - AFP
BEIJING: China's military began a live-fire exercise near Taiwan on Tuesday (Oct 22), maintaining pressure on the self-ruled island after staging large-scale drills and President Xi Jinping called for troops to prepare for war.
China's Communist Party has never ruled the island, but it claims Taiwan as part of its territory and has said it will not renounce the use of force to bring it under its control.
