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China claims ‘precision missile strikes’ in Taiwan Strait

Residents swim along the coast Keelung city in Taiwan, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. China is staging live-fire military drills in six self-declared zones surrounding Taiwan in response to a visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the island Beijing claims as its own territory. (AP Photo/Johnson Lai)

FILE - Chinese soldiers wearing masks guard the entrance to the military museum in Beijing on Aug. 1, 2022. China says military exercises by its navy, air force and other departments are underway in six zones surrounding Taiwan. The drills were prompted by a visit to the island Tuesday, Aug. 2, by Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and are intended to advertise China’s threat to attack the self-governing island republic in response to moves to solidify its de facto independence from Chinese rule with support from key ally the U.S. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

FILE - A security guard stands near a sculpture of the Chinese Communist Party flag at the Museum of the Communist Party of China on May 26, 2022, in Beijing. China said it was conducting military exercises Saturday, July 30, off its coast opposite Taiwan after warning Speaker Nancy Pelosi of the U.S. House of Representatives to scrap possible plans to visit the island democracy, which Beijing claims as part of its territory. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

China claims ‘precision missile strikes’ in Taiwan Strait