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Taiwan defends airport against simulated Chinese attack
AFP, Published on 26/07/2023
» TAOYUAN, Taiwan: Taiwan staged its first-ever military drill at Taoyuan International Airport on Wednesday, briefly halting commercial traffic as soldiers practised defending the facility against a simulated attack by Beijing.
US vows to defend space with Japan, deploy mobile Marines as China worries grow
AFP, Published on 12/01/2023
» WASHINGTON: The United States said Wednesday that attacks in space would invoke its defence treaty with Japan and announced the deployment of a more agile Marine unit in its ally as alarm grows over China.
'Not ready': Taiwan reservists stoic but unprepared for China threat
AFP, Published on 25/08/2022
» TAIPEI - Sitting pensively in a pew at a Taipei church, army reservist Henry Cheng is nonchalant about the Chinese warships and jets circling his island -- but he also feels ill-prepared for war.
North Korea's Kim says US is 'root cause' of tensions
AFP, Published on 12/10/2021
» SEOUL - The leader of nuclear-armed North Korea, Kim Jong Un, has blamed the United States for tensions on the peninsula, state media reported Tuesday.
Russia turns up uninvited to major NATO wargames
AFP, Published on 04/11/2018
» ON BOARD NAVY USS MOUNT WHITNEY (NORWAY) - The whirring of a low-flying Soviet Union-era war plane signalled Russia's uninvited arrival to NATO's biggest military exercise since the end of the Cold War.