China, however, asserts its right to build on what it sees as its territory. Taiwan also holds the Pratas Islands in the northern South China Sea, with China’s military forces frequently ...

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close to the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands. Taiwan calls China’s repeated nearby military activities “grey zone” warfare, designed to both wear out Taiwanese forces by making them ...

Not only did the Chinese aircraft fly in an area close to the Pratas Islands, but the bombers and some of the fighters flew around the southern part of Taiwan close to the bottom tip of the island ...