“The new leader of Taiwan barely had time to unpack his presidential office before China’s military surrounded the island on Thursday, in a large-scale show of force that risks locking the two sides in a fresh cycle of escalation,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Growing mistrust of Beijing helped propel Lai Ching-te to the presidency, which he assumed earlier this week.
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