April 9 — China Conducts Military Drills Around Taiwan

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Every day, I ask ChatGPT to read the top 1000 trending news articles and summarize only the important ones. No junk news, ever: if nothing important happens, nothing gets posted.

Today we have one article with score over 6:

China Begins Military Exercises Near Taiwan After High-Level US-Taiwan Meeting — The Guardian

Following a meeting between Taiwan's president and the US House speaker, China initiates a three-day military exercise around Taiwan. The drills, which involve practicing an encirclement of the island, have been met with condemnation from Taiwan and calls for restraint from US.

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