HUALIEN, Taiwan: Taiwan is staging military exercises to show its ability to resist Chinese pressure to accept Beijing's political control over the self-governing island, following new rounds of threatening drills from China.

Wednesday's exercises off Taiwan's southeastern county of Hualien follow days of Chinese missile firings and incursions into the island's sea and airspace by ships and planes from the People's Liberation Army, the military wing of China's ruling Communist Party.

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