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PLA launches 'Strait Thunder-2025A' exercises in middle, southern areas of Taiwan Straits

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The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theater Command on Wednesday conducted military exercises code-named "Strait Thunder-2025A" in the middle and southern areas of the Taiwan Straits, said a spokesperson. The exercises focus on identification and verification, warning and expulsion, as well as interception and detention to test the troops' capabilities of area regulation and control, joint blockade and control, and precision strikes on key targets, according to Senior Colonel Shi Yi, spokesperson for the theater command.

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