SpaceWar.com reports: “China’s military accused Taiwan on Wednesday of forcing its people to become cannon fodder as it raged against recent drills by the island’s armed forces.

Taipei’s leaders ‘under the banner of protecting Taiwan, are harming and destroying Taiwan, and coercing the people to be cannon fodder’, Beijing’s defence ministry spokesman Zhang Xiaogang told a regular news conference.

Taiwan this month held the 10-day ‘Han Kuang’ military drills.

Rather than only repelling a Chinese attack on its shores, Taiwanese troops this year also practised fighting invading forces in city streets.

Beijing’s military on Wednesday fumed over the exercise, describing them as ‘merely a show’.

‘They cannot change the inevitable demise of Taiwan independence,’ Zhang said, accusing Taipei’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of hatching an ‘evil plot’.

‘We sternly warn the DPP authorities that unjust deeds will bring destruction, no matter what efforts they try, it will all be in vain,’ he added…”