Beijing: China held air and sea drills around Taiwan on Saturday, in what it said was a "stern warning" after the island's vice president visited the United States.

William Lai — the frontrunner in Taiwan's presidential election next year and a vocal opponent of Beijing's claims to the island — stopped in New York and San Francisco on Friday while returning from a trip to Paraguay.

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