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Has expanded EDCA provoked China to advance date of Taiwan invasion?

THERE's certainly a basis to believe so. Just two months after the US Department of Defense announced that the Philippines agreed to allow its military to use four more camps, from the five the Aquino 3rd government committed to in 2014 under the so-called Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) announced a three-day military drill around Taiwan island that started last Saturday.