China holds military drills around Taiwan as ‘strong punishment’

19 minutes agoKelly Ng and Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Taipei,BBC NewsReutersChina has called its drills around Taiwan a “strong punishment” for “separatist acts”China has started two days of military exercises around Taiwan, with its military calling them “strong punishment” for the self-ruled island’s “separatist acts”.The drills come three days after the inauguration of President William Lai, who called on China to stop threatening the island and accept the existence of its democracy.China sees Taiwan as a breakaway province that will eventually be under Beijing’s control, but the island…