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				<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://asiatimes.com/2022/08/chinas-taiwan-strait-drills-the-new-normal/" rel="bookmark">China’s Taiwan Strait drills: the new normal</a></h2>							<div class="newspack-post-subtitle newspack-post-subtitle--in-homepage-block">
					China’s recent military exercises around Taiwan featured a ‘six direction’ battle plan aimed at winning early advantage in a real war				</div>
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					Series of top executive and official arrests point to graft and rot in government’s drive for chip-making self-sufficiency 				</div>
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