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    <text>The Higher Regional Court of Dresden convicts a Chinese–German man of espionage for China while working for AfD politician Maximilian Krah, giving him a sentence of over five years. A co-defendant accused of supplying cargo and passenger information from her job at Leipzig Airport is given a suspended sentence of one and a half years. </text>
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      <text>Prosecutors in Taiwan charge four soldiers with espionage and accuse them of passing photographs of Taiwan's military capability to Chinese agents in exchange for money from 2022 to 2024. </text>
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      <text>Prosecutors in Taiwan charge four soldiers with espionage and accuses them of passing photographs of Taiwan's military capability to Chinese agents in exchange for money from 2022 to 2024. </text>
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    <text>Prosecutors in Taiwan charge four soldiers with espionage, accusing the soldiers of passing photographs of Taiwan's military capability to Chinese agents in exchange for money between 2022 and 2024. </text>
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      <text>Germany arrests an American citizen suspected of spying on the U.S. military for China while working in Germany. </text>
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    <text>Germany arrests an American citizen suspected of spying on the U.S. military for China while working at a U.S. military installation in Germany. </text>
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      <text>The People's Liberation Army begins two days of military drills around the island of Taiwan. Taiwan mobilizes its military in response. </text>
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      <text>The People's Liberation Army begins military drills around the island of Taiwan as a simulation of invasion, warning against interference and punishment for electing President of the Republic of China Lai Ching-te, whom it considers a separatist. Taiwan mobilizes its military in response. </text>
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    <text>China's People's Liberation Army begins two days of military drills around Taiwan. In response, Taiwan mobilizes its military. </text>
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      <text>The National Defense Ministry of Taiwan says more than 30 Chinese PLA Air Force warplanes have entered Taiwanese airspace, and at least nine PLA Navy warships have been detected around Taiwan. The ROC Armed Forces have been deployed in response to the violation. </text>
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      <text>The National Defense Ministry of Taiwan says more than 30 Chinese warplanes have entered Taiwanese airspace, and at least nine People's Liberation Army Navy warships have been detected around Taiwan. The ROC has been deployed in response to the violation. </text>
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    <text>The National Defense Ministry of Taiwan says that more than 30 Chinese PLA Air Force warplanes have entered Taiwanese airspace and that at least nine PLA Navy warships have been detected around Taiwan. The ROC Armed Forces are deployed in response to the violation. </text>
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      <text>Taiwan officially begins extending their compulsory military service from four months to one year amid increased tensions with China. </text>
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      <text>Taiwan officially begins a one-year compulsory military service following the extension from four months due to rising tensions with China. </text>
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    <text>Taiwan officially begins extending its compulsory military service from four months to one year amid increased tensions with China. </text>
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    <text>The &quot;Wall Street Journal&quot; reports a contingent of U.S. special forces soldiers have been deployed in Taiwan to train Taiwanese forces amid tensions with China. The military trainers were first deployed under the Trump administration. </text>
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      <text>The government of the Solomon Islands says that a proposed independence referendum in Malaita Province is illegal. Daniel Suidani, the provincial premier of Malaita, proposed the referendum in protest to the decision by the central government to switch recognition from Taiwan to China last year. </text>
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    <text>The government of Solomon Islands says that a proposed independence referendum in Malaita Province is illegal. Daniel Suidani, the provincial premier of Malaita, proposed the referendum in protest to the decision by the central government to switch recognition from Taiwan to China last year. </text>
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    <text>Taiwan and China brace for the impact of Typhoon Nepartak, the first major typhoon of 2016. Thousands of people have been evacuated in Taiwan while over 35,000 military personnel have been placed on standby to help with relief efforts. </text>
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    <text>Bank of China becomes the first Chinese bank to open a branch in Taiwan. [http:--www3.nhk.or.jp-daily-english-20120627_31.html (NHK World)]date=July 2019 </text>
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  <text>A Taiwanese court sentences six current and former military personnel to prison terms of four and a half to eight and a half years for espionage offenses, including organizing networks and transmitting classified information to individuals linked to China. </text>
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