This aerial view shows land reclamation work on the Henoko coastal district of Nago, Okinawa prefecture, on Dec 14, 2018, to build a new site for relocating a US military airbase. - AFP
TOKYO (Reuters): Japanese and US armed forces have drawn up a draft plan for a joint operation for a possible Taiwan emergency, Japan's Kyodo news agency said on Thursday (Dec 23), citing unnamed Japanese government sources, amid increased tensions between the island and China.
China claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own "sacred" territory and in the past two years has stepped up military and diplomatic pressure to assert its sovereignty claims, fuelling anger in Taipei and deep concern in Washington.
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