Daily Memo: Chinese Drills, Turkish Mediation

The exercises come amid rising tensions in the South China Sea.

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Chinese drills. China’s People’s Liberation Army plans to conduct at least five military exercises in various locations. One of the drills will last three days in waters off the port city of Qingdao, the site of a key PLA base. Unspecified “major military activities” were already conducted in the same area on Tuesday. The PLA […]

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