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Africa’s Christian Crisis: How 2025’s deadly attacks finally drew global attention after Trump’s intervention

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JOHANNESBURG: Millions of Christians in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), spending Christmas under the reported threat of persecution, kidnapping, sexual violence and in some cases, death from Islamist militants, have seen Friday’s U.S. strikes on Islamic State militants in Nigeria as a real sign that President Trump is serious in his efforts to stop the killing of Africa’s Christians.

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Over 16 million Christians are estimated to have been displaced and ripped from their homes across the region. The alleged release of 130 kidnapped schoolchildren in Nigeria this week has done little to reduce fears, as many on the continent try to worship at Christmas.

But this year, Fox News Digital has highlighted the catastrophe from Africa on multiple occasions. The situation led to senior members of Congress, including Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas., Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., and ultimately, President Donald Trump’s threats and now actions have shone strong light on the violence.

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In Africa this Christmas, so far there’s reportedly little sign of improvement. «The militant Islamist onslaught across SSA is a catastrophe of global proportions unfolding before us,» Henrietta Blyth, CEO of Open Doors UK & Ireland, told Fox News Digital this week.

Open Doors is a global Christian charity supporting Christians persecuted for their faith.

Blyth continued, «the last year has seen a non-stop stream of reports from sub-Saharan Africa. (including) reports of militant Islamist groups brutally attacking, among others, defenseless Christian communities.»

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«At Open Doors, we have been sounding the alarm through our Arise Africa campaign. We’ve prayed repeatedly that the campaign of terror will reach public awareness.»

Referring to Nigeria and the thousands of Christians reported to have been killed there each year and the speeches, articles and posts against the violence, Open Doors’ Blyth states, «There is no sign that this has abated in 2025».

Members of St Leo Catholic Church hold a procession to mark Palm Sunday in Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, on April 13, 2025.  (Adekunle Ajayi/Getty Images)

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«The lack of global outrage and action on this issue is a moral disgrace,» South Africa’s Chief Rabbi, Dr. Warren Goldstein, told Fox News Digital. He added, «It seems as if black lives do not matter if they are murdered by Islamists in Africa. The persecution of Christians in Africa needs to be seen in its global context. It is part of a multi-continental jihadi war on the ‘infidels’ — Jews and Christians — and on Western values.»

He continued «it is a world war, with Israel at the epicenter of the fire of the jihadi forces of Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and others. The Islamist war on Christians in Africa is another front of this world war that stretches from Sudan in the north to Mozambique in the South.»

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Fox News Digital has highlighted where persecution has hit hardest in Africa in 2025:

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According to Open Doors, the continent’s most populous nation saw the worst persecution in Africa in 2025, with ‘non-stop stories of deadly attacks and kidnappings’ across Nigeria’s north and Middle Belt — a litany of villages torched, citizens raped, abducted, shot and beheaded.

Pope Leo XIV spoke out this year against killings attributed to Muslim Fulani tribesmen in Nigeria’s Benue State in June, saying «Some 200 people were murdered, with extraordinary cruelty». 

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Christians in Nigeria protest against the continued murder of the faithful by Islamists.

Christians hold signs as they march on the streets of Abuja during a prayer and penance for peace and security in Nigeria in Abuja on March 1, 2020. – The Catholic Bishops of Nigeria gathered faithfuls as well as other Christians and other people to pray for security and to denounce the barbaric killings of Christians by the Boko Haram insurgents and the incessant cases of kidnapping for ransom in Nigeria.  (Photo by KOLA SULAIMON/AFP via Getty Images)

Bishop Wilfred Anagbe’s Makurdi Diocese in north-central Nigeria is almost exclusively Christian. But the constant and escalating attacks by Islamist Fulani militants led him to testify at a congressional hearing  in Washington in March. Back in Nigeria, he was threatened, and some 20 of his parishioners killed.

THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (DRC)

DRC Christians

A screen shot shows villagers inspecting the damage left by jihadi terrorists who killed 49 Christians in DR Congo in late July. (Open Doors)

The war-torn country is 95% Christian, yet the faithful are being targeted by jihadists. In February, terrorists linked to Islamic State from the so-called ADF group, who want the eastern part of the country to become a Muslim caliphate, rounded up 70 Christians and reportedly beheaded them — in a church. In September, at least 89 Christians were reportedly slaughtered by jihadists at a funeral and in surrounding fields.

SUDAN

Sudan’s estimated 2 million Christians make up an estimated 4% of the country’s population,

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Like the rest of Sudan’s people, they face chronic food shortages and the horror of a yearslong war. But Christians are also allegedly singled out for discrimination and persecution by both sides in the conflict.

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The Evangelical church in Omdurman after being bombed even though it was not in a combat zone or used by any warring forces. (Open Doors)

A senior Sudanese church leader  told Fox News Digital that in the Darfur city of El Fasher, that «now Christians are eating animal feed and grass. No wheat, no rice, nothing can get in.»

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A civil conflict and weak governance have allowed armed militants to step into the vacuum of law and order, Open Doors reported. In the far north, Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province regularly swoop into villages in overnight raids, killing, abducting and destroying. Thousands of people have fled their homes for displacement camps.

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Ali, a villager, said «It never ends. I want it to end, but it doesn’t. We must sleep in the mountains for safety.» 

MOZAMBIQUE

Situated in the southwest of the continent, Mozambique has a Christian population of 55%. Islamic State Mozambique is causing havoc in the far north, targeting Christian communities, burning their churches and destroying homes. The killings have multiplied this year, and thousands more are fleeing their homes, joining more than 1.3 million who have already been displaced.

Structures set on fire in Mozambique in ISIS attack

Christian villages targeted in Mozambique (Middle East Media Research Institute)

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In one mass attack on the village of Napala in October, Open Doors reported militants killed 20 Christians and displaced some 2,000. A local pastor described how four elderly sisters were tied up and burned to death inside a house.

On the airstrikes in Nigeria, Open Doors’ Henrietta Blyth told Fox News Digital, «a military operation like this is not going to provide any sort of quick fix for decades of violence. The Nigerian government must pursue lasting solutions that ensure peace, protection of civilians and religious freedom for everyone.»

Chief Rabbi Goldstein concluded, «The West can only win this war if it can find the moral clarity to call it by its name and see all the theaters of war as part of the same fight.»

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US judge orders suspect detained for threatening to kill Richard Grenell

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A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, on Tuesday ordered the detention of a 33-year-old man charged with threatening to kill President Donald Trump ally and Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell, in what Justice Department officials described as a win for the Trump administration – and for Lindsey Halligan, the acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. 

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Grenell, a former U.S. ambassador to Germany, was not in court for the arraignment Tuesday afternoon, and was identified in a press release only as a «federal employee.»

The Justice Department identified Grenell to Fox News Digital as the individual in question.

The suspect, Scott Allen Bolger, was charged with transmitting threats in interstate commerce, and with making false statements to federal officers, who later used phone evidence to trace the threats back to him. He was arraigned in federal court in Alexandria. 

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Justice Department officials told Fox News Digital that the decision to hold an individual in pretrial detention is somewhat rare, and described the win as a victory for the Justice Department.  

According to court documents, Bolger used Google Voice to send threatening messages to Grenell, including allegedly threatening to kill him. Google Voice allows users to make calls and send messages to phone numbers that are not tied to their primary devices.

Bolger is also accused of lying to members of a federal task force who went to his residence in McLean to question him, falsely identifying himself as «Brian Black.»

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If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison. 

Ambassador Richard Grenell, Kennedy Center president, speaks at the 48th Kennedy Center Honors Medallion Reception at the U.S. Department of State on Dec. 6, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images)

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They also noted that Halligan, who Trump installed as U.S. attorney for EDVA earlier this year, attended the arraignment.

Halligan attended the proceedings, but did not play a formal role, Fox News Digital confirmed.

The Justice Department also shared a victim statement from Grenell with Fox News Digital that was read aloud in court. 

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«In my current role as a presidential envoy, I have been attacked and harassed by people who don’t know me and who simply want to leave nasty, rude and angry messages because I don’t share their political viewpoint,» Grenell said in the statement.

«But I strongly believe it is their right to be bitter and angry. I understand the passion. And I think the freedom to be rude and angry is a cherished right.»

«But today is much different,» he said. «Today we are dealing with someone who went far beyond sharing his angry opinion. Today we see a man who wants to kill someone because of their political differences.»

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«And as we have sadly learned from my friend Charlie Kirk’s death, we must take talk of violence and calls for death seriously. «

«This individual crossed the line from sharing his viewpoint to wanting to shoot someone in the face because he disagrees with them politically. It is very troubling,» he said, adding, «The people doing what he is doing, and there are many, must be given clear instructions from community leaders that their calls for shooting people in the head will have swift and severe consequences. Unstable people are watching what we do today.»

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Richard Grenell participates in roundtable with Sen. Mike Lee, President Trump and radio host Glenn Beck.

Former Acting Director of National Intelligence of the U.S. Richard Grenell, Sen. Mike Lee, former President Trump, and Glenn Beck participate in a private roundtable discussion on Oct. 13, 2024, in Prescott Valley, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

Notably, the determination to hold Bolger in pretrial detention was made by U.S. Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick. 

Fitzpatrick most recently made headlines for issuing scathing broadsides against DOJ for its handling of grand jury materials in the Comey case, which he said, last month, presented «irregularities» that «may rise to the level of government misconduct.»

The suspect’s arrest comes at a time when threats and intimidation aimed at high-profile figures across all three branches of government have appeared to escalate.

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Polls have shown that people believe political violence is on the rise in the wake of Kirk’s assassination, the murder of two Minnesota Democratic lawmakers and violence toward immigration enforcement officials.

Brooke Singman contributed to this report.

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Michael Ignatieff, historiador y ex político canadiense: “El genocidio comenzó como un concepto legal y ahora es simplemente un instrumento para deslegitimar»

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El año pasado, cuando le otorgaron el Premio Princesa de Asturias de Ciencias Sociales, el jurado fundamentó su decisión en que “la aportación de este autor constituye una referencia imprescindible para orientarnos en un presente tan cargado de conflictos bélicos, polarización política y amenazas a la libertad”.

Así se refería el jurado a Michael Ignatieff, el historiador, filósofo y ex político canadiense que, entre 2009 y 2011, lideró la oposición al gobierno del Partido Conservador de su país como presidente del Partido Liberal canadiense.

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Entre los principales temas de reflexión de este intelectual de 78 años se destaca su preocupación por los derechos humanos, la superación de las diferencias étnicas y religiosas y el rescate de los valores comunes en un mundo globalizado.

Ignatieff regresó este año a España para participar en el Festival de las ideas. En Madrid, conversó con Clarín sobre genocidio y antisemitismo, dos “tragedias” que permean la mirada acerca del conflicto en Oriente Medio. Se mostró, sin embargo, optimista sobre los pequeños pactos cotidianos que hacen posible la convivencia social.

-En estos días, el conflicto entre Israel y Palestina ya no está en la tapa de los diarios pero sigue sin resolverse y el debate sobre si el Estado hebreo comete o no un genocidio en Gaza parece haber quedado anestesiado. ¿Cuál es su opinión?

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-Enseño derechos humanos, y he escrito sobre la creación del Convenio sobre el Genocidio en 1948. Desde un punto de vista legal, el Convenio sobre el Genocidio señala que depende de la intención. Se tiene que probar la intención de exterminar en su totalidad o en parte a un grupo humano. Por lo tanto, hay un problema legal desde el principio. ¿Cómo se determina la intención del gobierno israelí en relación a esto? Es un problema.

Destrucción en la Franja de Gaza, tras más de dos años de guerra. Foto: REUTERS

-Creo que el genocidio comenzó como un concepto legal con un significado claro, y ahora es simplemente un instrumento para deslegitimar a cualquier Estado al que acuses de genocidio. Y la acusación contra Israel es particularmente letal porque es un Estado creado por personas que indudablemente sufrieron un genocidio. Entonces mi opinión es que el genocidio no es un término legal; es un término político cuyo propósito es pronunciar anatema sobre un Estado democrático. Y creo, por lo tanto, que el genocidio es inutilizable legalmente y moralmente. El debate sobre el genocidio no es un debate sobre lo que está sucediendo. Es un debate sobre si debemos condenar a Israel o no. Y no me uniré a ese debate.

-Pero desde el punto de vista de los derechos humanos, ha habido crímenes contra la humanidad en Gaza

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-Seguro que sí. ¿Se han violado las leyes de la guerra? Seguro que sí. ¿Ha habido asesinatos ilegales e injustificados? Sin duda. Desde un punto de vista legal, no es complicado. Israel ha violado constantemente las leyes de la guerra. Y el asesinato casual de personas que vienen a buscar ayuda alimentaria es una vergüenza. Así que no quiero minimizar ninguno de los horrores. Se están cometiendo crímenes de guerra, al igual que Hamás ha cometido constantemente crímenes de guerra como organización terrorista. Y la responsabilidad penal del régimen de Netanyahu durante diez años al permitir que los qataríes financiaran la construcción de los túneles. La irresponsabilidad penal de Israel en relación con Gaza es simplemente inaceptable.

-Entonces, ¿cómo define lo que está sucediendo?

-Lo que está sucediendo es una catástrofe para los derechos humanos. Es una catástrofe para los palestinos. Y como alguien que ha apoyado al Estado de Israel toda su vida, es una catástrofe para Israel. Creo que el Estado de Israel acaba de crear otra generación de personas que preferirían morir a someterse a Israel. Y eso significa que esta campaña militar ha creado otras dos, tres generaciones de odio y resistencia hacia el Estado de Israel. Y como alguien que ha enseñado en Israel, vivido en Israel, y tiene muchas amistades profundas y cercanas en Israel, creo que esto es una catástrofe. Debemos recordar que hay muchos ciudadanos israelíes que se han manifestado en contra de la guerra y que son conscientes de que lo que Israel está haciendo, en nombre de la autodefensa, es convertir a Israel en un lugar menos seguro en el futuro.

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«Lo que está sucediendo es una catástrofe para los derechos humanos. Es una catástrofe para los palestinos. Y como alguien que ha apoyado al Estado de Israel toda su vida, es una catástrofe para Israel».

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-¿Qué queda del rol de las instituciones internacionales?

-La guerra ha sido una catástrofe para las organizaciones internacionales, para los derechos humanos. Las organizaciones humanitarias han sido rechazadas, ha habido una hambruna organizada, que es un crimen de guerra. La ONU es inútil. La organización de la ONU que alimentaba y administraba Gaza durante 80 años ha sido prohibida, desmantelada. El mundo multilateral internacional que dábamos por sentado incluso hace 10 años está en ruinas. Y la otra cosa que estamos viendo es una administración estadounidense, que solía reprimir a Israel, y ahora simplemente le está dando carta blanca, por razones políticas domésticas. Hace que Estados Unidos sea cómplice de crímenes de guerra, de crímenes de lesa humanidad.

-En su libro Las virtudes cotidianas (de 2018) usted rescata cualidades como la confianza o el perdón en los gestos diarios que garantizan la convivencia en sociedad. Hoy, con los derechos humanos en jaque, ¿es posible ser optimistas sobre la eficacia de esas virtudes?

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-Soy más optimista sobre las virtudes cotidianas que sobre las estructuras universalistas de los derechos humanos. Porque las estructuras universalistas dependen de las instituciones, y las instituciones están siendo desmanteladas, abandonadas. Son ruinas. Las visitaremos como visitamos monumentos romanos o templos griegos. Soy pesimista con respecto a las grandes abstracciones. Soy menos pesimista con respecto a las virtudes personales. Por ejemplo, soy menos pesimista con respecto a lo que sucede cuando una persona blanca y una persona negra se encuentran que lo que habría sido hace 60 años. Ahora estamos avanzando milímetro a milímetro hacia un mundo en el que la raza no importa tanto. Donde, como dijo Martin Luther King, juzgamos a las personas por su carácter, no por el color de su piel. Esa sería la mayor victoria moral en la historia de la raza humana, si pudiéramos llegar a ella.

Un campo para desplazados palestinos en la Ciudad de Gaza. Foto: AP Un campo para desplazados palestinos en la Ciudad de Gaza. Foto: AP

-Usted señala que hoy en día la raza no es un problema. Pero ¿qué ocurre con el antisemitismo?

-Por supuesto que existe. Vivo y trabajo en Viena. A cien metros de mi casa hay unas pequeñas placas de bronce en el suelo que me dicen que una familia judía que vivía allí mismo, en ese edificio, fue deportada en 1942, mientras los vecinos miraban sin hacer nada. Hoy, el antisemitismo se utiliza como arma en la batalla política. Pasé 15 años de mi vida en Harvard como estudiante de posgrado y luego como profesor. Es el lugar menos antisemita en el que he estado. Es inconcebible que se le pueda amenazar con la retirada de la financiación federal por fomentar el antisemitismo. Se trata de un arma: ha habido manifestaciones en apoyo a los palestinos que resultan muy incómodas para los ciudadanos judíos de Estados Unidos que están en Harvard. Las universidades no tienen por qué ser lugares agradables, felices y acogedores. Se supone que son lugares donde se cuestionan tus opiniones. Y la idea de que Harvard es un lugar inseguro para los judíos es simplemente ridícula. Hace que la vida sea más peligrosa para los judíos, si se convierte el antisemitismo en un grito de guerra.

-Volviendo al conflicto Israel-Palestina, ¿la teoría de los dos Estados es ficción?

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-Estamos más alejados de eso que nunca. He creído toda mi vida en dos Estados para dos pueblos. No creo que haya otra solución. Israel ha estado dividido en dos durante 80 años en torno a esto. Y uno de los desarrollos políticos más deprimentes de mi vida ha sido el lento colapso de la viabilidad de una solución de dos Estados. El día en que nací, en 1947, mi padre, un joven diplomático canadiense, estaba sentado en el Comité de Palestina de las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York, debatiendo el plan de partición para dividir la tierra en dos. Si el plan de partición hubiera sido aceptado en 1947, no estaríamos teniendo esta conversación.

-Es decir que su padre no estuvo presente en su nacimiento…

-Estaba en Nueva York y yo estaba en Toronto. Estaba sentado en el comité cuando recibió el mensaje de que tenía un hijo. Corrió por el pasillo y un rabino lo detuvo para preguntarle qué estaba pasando en el comité. El le dijo que no podía parar, que acaba de tener un hijo. Entonces el rabino sacó sus ropas religiosas y le dio una bendición a mi padre. No soy judío pero la primera bendición que recibí fue de un rabino.

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China launches largest military drills off Taiwan in 8 months with live-fire exercises caught on camera

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China fired rockets into waters near Taiwan during large-scale live-fire drills Tuesday, staging its biggest military encirclement of the island in eight months while warning «separatist» forces and outside powers.

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A video released by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theater Command showed forces firing rockets into waters north of Taiwan and bomber aircraft taking off at night as part of the encirclement.

The footage was released on the second day of the large-scale exercise «Justice Mission 2025.»

China launched the exercise Monday, surrounding Taiwan with warships, aircraft and live-fire drills as tensions rose following a record U.S. arms sale to Taipei.

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China launched rockets near Taiwan during massive live-fire drills, surrounding the island with warships, aircraft and military pressure as tensions rise. (PLA Eastern Theater Command via Reuters)

«Justice Mission 2025» includes coordinated deployments of ground forces, naval vessels, fighter jets, drones and artillery across seven maritime zones encircling Taiwan.

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Tuesday’s drills included long-range live-fire exercises in waters north of Taiwan, PLA Eastern Theater Command spokesperson Li Xi said, according to state-run Xinhua News. Li said the drills achieved their intended results.

Other drills included assaults on maritime targets and anti-air and anti-submarine operations. Destroyers, frigates, fighter jets and bombers also carried out simulated strikes on maritime targets.

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China launched rockets near Taiwan during massive live-fire drills, surrounding the island with warships, aircraft and military pressure as tensions rise. (PLA Eastern Theater Command via Reuters)

Rockets fired by Chinese forces landed inside Taiwan’s 24-nautical-mile line, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said.

Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te said Tuesday that Beijing «has continued to escalate military tension in the region, which is not the behavior of a responsible world power,» according to Focus Taiwan. He added that «Taiwan will not provoke a confrontation, nor seek conflict with China.»

Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said on X that 130 PLA aircraft, 14 naval vessels and eight official ships were operating around the island as of 6 a.m. local time.

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«Ninety of the 130 sorties crossed the median line and entered Taiwan’s northern, central, southwestern and eastern air defense identification zone,» the statement said. «We monitored the situation and responded.»

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China fires rockets near Taiwan

China launched rockets near Taiwan during massive live-fire drills, surrounding the island with warships, aircraft and military pressure as tensions rise. (PLA Eastern Theater Command via Reuters)

The PLA said on X that a Chinese military drone captured aerial footage of Taipei 101, which Taiwan’s Defense Ministry described as a typical example of psychological warfare. «So close, so beautiful, go to Taipei at any time,» the PLA said in the post.

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President Donald Trump said Monday that Chinese President Xi Jinping did not inform him of the drills, adding that the exercises did not concern him.

As the drills unfolded, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said Chinese military aircraft and naval vessels were operating near the island, with some engaging in close stand-offs near Taiwan’s contiguous zone, about 24 nautical miles from shore.

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A procession of Taiwanese armed military vehicles patrols outside the Songshan Airport in the capital city following China's announcement of the military exercise Joint Sword-2024B that encircles Taiwan on October 14, 2024 in Taipei, Taiwan.

Military exercises mobilize the Chinese PLA Navy, Army, Air Force and the Chinese Coast Guards, which are deemed as a punishment to Taiwan’s call for independence. (Daniel Ceng/Anadolu via Getty Images)

«Conducting live-fire exercises around the Taiwan Strait would not only constitute military pressure on us, but could also pose broader risks to the international community and neighboring countries,» said Hsieh Jih-sheng, Taiwan’s deputy chief of the general staff for intelligence.

Taiwan placed its military on high alert and said it was prepared to conduct rapid-response exercises if the drills escalated. The ministry released video highlighting its own capabilities, including U.S.-made HIMARS systems, while the coast guard deployed large patrol ships to monitor Chinese vessels near its waters.

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China claims Taiwan as its territory and has not ruled out using force to bring the island under its control. Taiwan rejects that claim, maintaining that only its people can decide the island’s future.

Fox News Digital’s Morgan Phillips and Reuters contributed to this report.

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