TAIPEI: China has stepped up its "gray zone" harassment of Taiwan, subjecting it to waves of balloons, drones and civilian vessels in recent months, Taipei's Defense Ministry said on Thursday.

Beijing claims democratic Taiwan as its own territory and has never renounced the use of force to bring the self-ruled island under its control.

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