Patriot missiles streaked across the light-blue Asian sky and F-16s bombarded ships Thursday as Taiwan beat back a simulated Chinese invasion in the island's largest-ever military exercise.
The "Chinese Glory" maneuvers were meant to test Taiwan's army, navy, air force and marines against the forces of its longtime rival mainland China, just 100 miles across the Taiwan Strait.
China and Taiwan split amid civil war in 1949, and Beijing remains committed to bringing the self-governing island back into its fold - possibly through the sort of beach-landing invasion that the exercises simulated.
The drills followed Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian's decision earlier this year to scrap a government body responsible for the island's eventual unification with the mainland.
Chen's measure infuriated Beijing and alarmed Washington, which fears being drawn into a war in the western Pacific.
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