Manoeuvres follow recent US promise of up to $10bn in security assistance to Taiwan
It was not immediately known if the drones were shot down.
North Korea has previously touted its drone programme, and South Korean officials said the North has about 300 drones. The launch was seen as a protest over the South Korean-US joint air drills that North Korea views as an invasion rehearsal. China staged its largest military manoeuvres near Taiwan over the weekend since the Taiwan Strait crisis in August, days after the US passed an annual defence spending bill that authorised up to $10 billion in security assistance to the country for the first time.
China has been steadily increasing the scope and scale of its air and naval operations near Taiwan in recent years, including an elevated level of activity since the August stand-off. But the exercises on Sunday were the first officially announced by the PLA since August. China on Saturday said it was “strongly dissatisfied and resolutely opposed” to the law, which it claimed damaged peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. “The case ignores the facts to exaggerate a ‘China threat’, wantonly interferes in China’s internal affairs and attacks and smears the Chinese Communist party, which are serious political provocations,” the foreign ministry said.
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