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The UK, France and Germany have expressed concern over recent Chinese coast guard activities near Taiwan’s east coast, urging restraint and stability in the Taiwan Strait.

China and Taiwan have remained locked in a decades-old political and military dispute, with Beijing claiming sovereignty over the island and Taipei defending its separate democratic system. Rising military drills, diplomatic clashes, US involvement, and the battle over Taiwan’s future have turned the Taiwan Strait into a major global security hotspot.

China carried out a "law enforcement operation" in waters east of Taiwan after Japan and the Philippines agreed to begin talks on delimiting a maritime boundary.