China starts 3-day military drill around Taiwan after Tsai U.S. talks

China began a three-day air and sea military exercise and patrol around Taiwan on Saturday, following a meeting between the island's leader Tsai Ing-wen and U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California earlier this week.Taiwan's Defense Ministry said it detected 71 Chinese military aircraft and nine warships around the Taiwan Strait from the morning to late afternoon, of which 45 planes crossed the median line of the strait or entered the island's air defense identification zone in its southwest.The exercise and patrol off the northern and southern coasts of Taiwan and…READ FULL ARTICLE