China seals off parts of Yellow Sea for ‘large-scale’ naval drills

‘China has temporarily sealed off a part of the Yellow Sea for what it described as “large-scale” military exercises, the second drill off the coast of the Korean Peninsula in the past two weeks.
The area, which covers approximately 57,000 square kilometers from Qingdao in eastern China’s Shandong Province to Lianyungang in Jiangsu province, will be off-limits to all vessels from 6 a.m. local time on Saturday until 6 p.m. on Tuesday.
The Chinese navy provided no further details on the four-day “large-scale military operations” in the restricted area.
The earlier round was conducted for three days between July 27 and July 29.
The drills come at a time of flare-ups between Beijing and Washington over Pyongyang’s latest missile test, aiming to reassert China’s regional power and to send a message of deterrence, according to analysts.’
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