Taiwan convenes security meeting amid Chinese blockade drills

Officials on the island have condemned the exercise as ?reckless? and ?provocative?

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te has convened a national security meeting in response to large-scale Chinese drills around the self-ruled island.

In a statement on Monday, Presidential Office spokesperson Karen Kuo said that the Taiwanese military was "fully monitoring" Beijing's exercises, adding that Taipe