The timing for Taiwan could not have been worse. On Friday, the island country accidentally fired a deadly anti-ship missile into the Taiwan Strait from a naval base in Kaohsiung, in southern Taiwan. Reports said that a Taiwan warship mistakenly launched a supersonic “aircraft carrier killer” missile toward China. The missile hit a fishing boat, killing the boat’s captain. In response, China, who was celebrating the Chinese Communist Party’s 95th birthday, called it “a serious matter.” “The Taiwanese side must explain to use what was going on in a responsible matter,” said mainland’s Taiwan affairs chief, Zhang Zhijun. The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post said that the incident further ...
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