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Taiwanese are rushing to buy patches being worn by their air force pilots that depict a Formosan black bear punching Winnie the Pooh - representing China's President Xi Jinping - as a defiant symbol of the island's resistance to Chinese war games.

Military drills close to Taiwan have continued for a third day as Chinese forces carried out simulated aerial and naval blockades.

China's military carried out aerial and naval blockade drills around Taiwan on Monday, its last scheduled day of exercises, with a Chinese aircraft carrier joining in combat patrols as Taipei reported another surge of warplanes near the island. China announced the three days of drills on Saturday, after Taiwan's President…

China's military carried out aerial and naval blockade drills around Taiwan on Monday, its last scheduled day of exercises, as the US Navy said it sailed a guided-missile destroyer through waters claimed by Beijing.

Ship-launched fighter jets have previously never been seen in island’s air defence zone

Japan stressed on Monday the importance of peace in the Taiwan Strait during a meeting of senior Japanese and Chinese officials after Beijing held three days of war games around the island.

The Taiwan defence ministry said it spotted 59 Chinese military planes near Taiwan up until 10 a.m. (0200 GMT) on Monday.

Peace in the Taiwan Strait and independence for the self-governed island are ‘mutually exclusive’, China warns.

China ended three days of military drills around Taiwan on Monday saying they had tested integrated military capabilities under actual combat conditions, having practised precision strikes and blockading the island that Beijing views as its own.