TAIPEI (Reuters) - China has sailed a carrier group into the sensitive Taiwan Strait led by its first domestically build aircraft carrier as election campaigning kicked into high gear on the self-ruled island on Sunday.
Taiwan’s foreign minister, Joseph Wu, said they would not be intimidated.
Democratic Taiwan is claimed by China as a wayward province and is the Communist Party’s most sensitive and important territorial issue. China has threatened to attack if Taiwan moves towards independence.
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WNU Editor: U.S. and Japanese ships were following the fleet .... China aircraft carrier fleet passes near rival Taiwan; says American and Japanese ships followed (Navy Times).
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