China Escalates Taiwan Tensions With Illegal Oil Drilling in EEZ

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China is now illegally drilling for oil within Taiwan’s exclusive economic zone, ramping up Beijing’s campaign of aggression against the island’s sovereignty. Over the past several years, China has been intensifying performative military displays in the waters around the island, but drilling within Taiwan’s territory is a new development that could signal a new, ultra-aggressive political era for the One China policy.  Over the last two months, “at least 12 oil and gas vessels and permanent structures were detected…