China has launched multi-branch military drills as "punishment" for Taiwan, days after the self-ruled island inaugurated President Lai Ching-te of the Beijing-skeptic Democratic Progressive Party.

Taiwan, officially known as the Republic of China (ROC), is an island separated from China by the Taiwan Strait. Mainland ...

China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has over the past five years staged almost daily military activities around the island, including war games that have ...