China announced more military drills around Taiwan as the island's president met with members of a new U.S. congressional delegation on Monday, threatening to renew tensions between Beijing and the U.S. after a recent visit by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Pelosi was the highest-level member of the U.S. government to visit Taiwan in 25 years, and her trip prompted nearly two weeks of threatening military exercises by China, which claims the island as its own. In those drills, Beijing fired missiles over the island and into the Taiwan Strait and sent warplanes and navy ships across the waterway's midline, which has long been a buffer between the sides that split amid civil war in 1949.
The latest trip began Sunday with little notice ahead of time — and drew more ire from China. The delegation was due to leave late Monday. It was not clear if the new drills had already started since the ministry gave no details about where and when they would be conducted, in contrast to previous rounds.
"Russia's invasion of Ukraine earlier this year has shown the threat that authoritarian nations pose to the global order," Tsai said. Markey is one of the few members of Congress still serving who voted for the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act that ensured continued relations with the island following the switch of U.S. diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing. The other members of the delegation are Republican Rep. Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen, a delegate from American Samoa, and Democrats John Garamendi and Alan Lowenthal from California and Don Beyer from Virginia.
The American"visit at this time is of great significance, because the Chinese military exercise is to deter U.S. congressmen from visiting Taiwan," Lo Chih-cheng, the chair of the Taiwan legislature's Foreign and National Defense Committee, said after meeting with the U.S. lawmakers.
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