Topic: China has begun two days of large-scale military exercises in the waters around Taiwan, which it describes as “punishment” for purported separatist acts seeking independence — just days after the island's inauguration of President Lai Ching-te of the Democratic Progressive Party, who spoke of Taiwan as a “sovereign, independent nation.”
Headline: Furious China launches two-day ‘punishment’ drills across Taiwan in stern response to ‘separatists acts’