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The island’s military for the first time shot down an unidentified civilian drone that entered its airspace near an islet off the Chinese coast, after the government vowed to take tough measures to deal with an increase in such intrusions.
The level of concern in western countries about China’s role in Taiwan’s future does not match the mood on the streets of Taipei where people have been living with the threat of invasion for 70 years.
TAIPEI, Taiwan Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping’s expected success at a major party congress masks latent “challenges from within,” according to Taiwanese officials wary of Beijing s saber-rattling.