China launches biggest military encirclement of Taiwan in 8 months with live-fire drills, rockets and warships in massive 'Justice Mission 2025' exercise.

China warned aircraft and ships to avoid seven designated drill zones around Taiwan, an effective blockade. On Tuesday, China fired 27 rockets from its eastern coast, some landing closer to Taiwan’s main island than ever before, said Lt. Gen. Hsieh Jih-sheng, a Taiwan military intelligence official.

As Taiwan blasts China's "highly provocative and reckless" blockade rehearsal, Trump touts his relationship with Xi Jinping and says an invasion is unlikely.

The Pentagon said China has the world's leading hypersonic missile arsenal for conventional and nuclear strikes.

The Chinese military says it dispatched air, navy and missile units for a second day to conduct joint live-fire drills around Taiwan to warn against what it calls separatist and “external interference” forces.

China launched live-fire drills around Taiwan that it said would simulate a blockade of the self-ruled island's key ports, prompting Taipei to condemn Beijing's "military intimidation."

China's People's Liberation Army is conducting large-scale military drills around Taiwan as part of "Justice Mission 2025."

Senior Col. Shi Yi, spokesperson of the Eastern Theater Command, said the drills were a “stern warning against ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist forces and external interference forces” and described the military action as a “necessary” move to protect China’s "sovereignty and national unity.”

China’s decision to bring serious firepower to bear for military drills in the waters off Taiwan this week has deep roots both in the past several weeks and the past several decades.

China launches largest military drills ever around Taiwan as war tensions spike following record $11.1 billion U.S. arms sale to the island nation.

China is conducting big military drills that encircle the island of Taiwan on Tuesday, demonstrating its ability to blockade Taiwan completely.