China ended three days of military drills around Taiwan yesterday saying it was “ready to fight”, having tested integrated military capabilities under actual combat conditions, and practised precision strikes and blockading the island that Beijing views as its own. Taiwan responded to Beijing’s announcement by saying it would “never relax” its efforts to strengthen combat readiness and would closely monitor China’s missile forces and movements of the Shandong aircraft carrier. Beijing began the drills on Saturday after Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen returned to Taipei following a meeting in Los Angeles with US House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy. China has…