Xi Visits Province Across From Taiwan After Military Drills
- Xi heads to county where communists won civil war battle
- Trip comes day after China held military drills off Taiwan
Xi Jinping
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping visited the province directly across from Taiwan after the military he leads carried out more major exercises intended to ramp up pressure on the government in Taipei.
Xi made the trip to Dongshan County in Fujian on Tuesday, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The report didn’t mention the drills but Dongshan is remembered in China as the site of a victory by the communists in their civil war against the Nationalists in the mid-20th century.