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Taiwan is working with friendly nations on how to respond to a possible economic blockade by China, a scenario that appears more likely than a direct military attack on the island, according to a senior Taiwanese diplomat.
Chinese military exercises are increasingly aimed at “winning the war without an actual fight,” Taiwan’s deputy Foreign Minister Roy Chun Lee said in an interview. “An economic blockade is, for sure, one of the possible options that China is seriously looking at.”