Chinese authorities announced Thursday that a live-fire military exercise will be held in the Taiwan Strait next Wednesday, which Taiwan immediately criticized as a "provocative act."
The exercise will be carried out off the coast of Quanzhou City, between 8 a.m. and midnight, according to a notice from the maritime bureau of Fujian Province, situated across the 160-kilometer strait from Taiwan.
It said navigation in some areas of the strait will be prohibited during those hours.