Is the PLA rehearsing operations to keep US forces out of a Taiwan conflict?

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Recent Chinese naval deployments in the western Pacific and South China Sea have raised concern that the PLA may be rehearsing ways to prevent US and allied forces from intervening in a Taiwan conflict. Beijing has not announced a large-scale exercise, while analysts cite a US-based think tank assessment of the activity.

Recent mainland Chinese naval deployments in the western Pacific and South China Sea have raised questions over whether Beijing is rehearsing operations to stop US and allied forces from intervening in a Taiwan conflict, according to analysts. Beijing has not announced any large-scale drill in relation to recent People’s Liberation Army (PLA) naval activities. But a November 6 assessment by US-based think tank the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said the PLA could be conducting a major...