TAIPEI: Taiwan's leader Tsai Ing-wen reassured residents that the island was secure on Tuesday, a day before China is set to hold live-fire drills in the narrow strait that separates the two.

Tsai spoke to reporters as she left for Swaziland, one of Taiwan's few remaining international allies that has not been wooed away by an ascendant Beijing as cross-strait relations deteriorate.

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