Taiwan coastguard says Chinese ships 'withdrawing' after drills

China launched missiles and deployed dozens of fighter jets, navy ships and coastguard vessels around the island on Monday and Tuesday in live-fire drills aimed at simulating a blockade of the Taiwan's key ports and assaults on maritime targets. Taipei, which slammed the two-day war games as "highly provocative and reckless", said the manoeuvre failed to impose a blockade on the island. Communist China has never ruled democratic Taiwan, but Beijing claims the island of 23 million people is part...