Nancy Pelosi’s brief visit this week to the self-ruled island that China regards as its territory infuriated Beijing and prompted unprecedented military drills that have included ballistic missiles fired over the capital, Taipei.
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China’s Eastern Theater Command said it had continued to conduct sea and air joint exercises north, southwest, and east of Taiwan. It said its focus was on testing the system’s land strike and sea assault capabilities. The island’s defence ministry published a photo of a Taiwanese sailor on a frigate looking at a nearby Chinese warship off Taiwan’s east coast. “Not photoshopped! “the caption said.
Speaking during a visit to the Philippines, Blinken said the United States had been hearing concern from allies about what he called China’s dangerous and destabilising actions around Taiwan, but Washington would remain steady in its handling of the situation and sought to avoid escalating the situation.
“The Chinese can go a long way to taking the tensions down simply by stopping these provocative military exercises and ending the rhetoric,” he told reporters.
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