The military exercise began in response to Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. They will last until the end of the week
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China's People's Liberation Army conducts live firing as part of military exercise near Taiwan, citing Eastern Zone report Combat Command is broadcast by China Central Television (CCTV).
“At about 13:00 on August 4, long-range live firing and accurate strikes were carried out in the Taiwan Strait on target areas in the eastern Taiwan Strait, the expected results were achieved,”— the message says.
China began military exercises near Taiwan on August 4. They will last until Sunday, August 7th. Within their framework, live firing will take place in the waters and airspace near the island. Taiwan considers these maneuvers “another provocation” and an attempt to change the status quo in the region.
China's large-scale exercises were a response to the visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan. She arrived on the island as part of an Asian tour on the evening of August 2. At the same time, Taiwan was not officially announced in her program: only the media reported on the trip. Against the backdrop of these reports, nearly 300,000 people were simultaneously following Pelosi's plane on the Flightradar website. Due to this influx of users, the service had to limit the number of transactions per minute.
Pelosi spent less than a day in Taiwan. There she met with the head of the local administration, Tsai Ing-wen, and then flew to South Korea. This was the first visit by a speaker of the US House of Representatives to the island since 1997.
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China Pelosi's visit to Taiwan has been sharply criticized. The trip significantly affected China-US relations, violated China's sovereignty and “undermined the stability of the Taiwan Strait,” sending a false signal to separatist forces advocating “Taiwan independence,” its foreign ministry said. Beijing considers Taiwan its province and opposes any contact between Taipei and representatives of other countries with which China has diplomatic relations.
The United States, in turn, said that Pelosi's trip is consistent with their policy on Taiwan . “There is no reason for this visit to be a pretext for crisis or conflict, or a pretext that the Chinese might try to use for some kind of military action,” — said John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council at the White House. Earlier, Washington has repeatedly stressed that it supports the principle of a united China.
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