The war games saw Beijing simulate targeted strikes on Taiwan and encirclement of the island, including "sealing" it off, and state media reported dozens of planes had practised an "aerial blockade."
Taiwan says it has detected three warships and 13 Chinese aircraft around the island.
Beijing condemns meeting in California between Taiwan's top official Tsai Ing-wen and US House speaker Kevin McCarthy as "acts of collusion" and vows to take "resolute" measures to defend its sovereignty.
The bulk of Terry Gou's investments are in mainland China, where he employs more than one million workers in massive factories, raising concerns over his perceived cosiness with Beijing's leadership.
President Tsai Ing-wen meets with senior US security officials to discuss "regional situation" ahead of her meeting with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
US House Speaker McCarthy has announced he would meet Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen in California on Wednesday as China warned the US by saying it is "playing with fire" over Tsai's trip.
After first visiting New York, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will continue her 10-day trip by meeting her Guatemalan counterpart Giammattei and Belize Prime Minister Briceno in their respective countries.
Republican frontrunner is named as new speaker of US House of Representatives as he quells a rebellion among his party's ranks that had paralysed lower chamber of Congress for four days.
Speaker candidate Kevin McCarthy takes a significant step to securing the gavel after four days of deadlock and 14 voting rounds as he manages to win 15 of the 20 hardline fellow Republicans blocking his path.
For a long and frustrating third day, divided Republicans leave the speaker’s chair sitting empty, as party leader Kevin McCarthy loses again and again in excruciating string of ballots to win enough GOP votes to seize chamber's gavel.
House of Representatives, mired in a chaotic leadership battle, again rejects Republican Kevin McCarthy's bid to lead the chamber as rebels in the party defy ex-president Donald Trump's call for unity.
He won no more than 203 votes in three rounds of voting, losing as many as 20 Republicans from his slim 222-seat majority.
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