Just days after the latest close military encounter between the US and China, when the US navy sailed a destroyer to within 12 nautical miles of the contested Spratly Islands in the South China Sea - a move that China condemned as a "severe provocation" just as the two countries launched an all-out trade war - the Chinese military began its spring combat readiness drills with an air force exercise in the West Pacific and a joint combat patrol mission in the South China Sea.
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