China will hold three days of military exercises around Taiwan from Saturday, the People's Liberation Army's Eastern Theatre Command announced, the day after Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen returned from a trip to the United States.
China will hold "combat readiness patrols" and exercises around in the Taiwan Strait and to the north, south and east of Taiwan "as planned", it added in a brief statement without offering other details.
There was no immediate response from Taiwan's government, though the island's defence ministry said on Saturday morning that in the previous 24 hours it had spotted four Chinese aircraft in Taiwan's air defence zone, not an unusual number.
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