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    Taiwan holds military drill after China repeats threats

    11 Aug 2022

    Beijing has raged at a trip to Taiwan last week by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — the highest-ranking elected American official to visit in decades — staging days of air and sea drills around the island that raised tensions to their highest level in years.

    Taiwan rejects China’s ‘one country, two systems’ plan for the island

    11 Aug 2022

    China was using US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taipei as an "excuse to create a new normality to intimidate Taiwan's people," ministry spokeswoman Joanne Ou told a news conference in Taipei, the capital.

    Taiwanese foreign minister warns China preparing for invasion

    09 Aug 2022

    Joseph Wu told a press conference in Taipei that Taiwan, which is claimed by China as its own, would not be intimidated even as the drills continued with China often breaching the unofficial median line down the Taiwan Strait.

    China reaffirms threat of military force to annex Taiwan

    10 Aug 2022

    The statement issued by the Cabinet’s Taiwan Affairs Office and its news department followed almost a week of missile firings and incursions into Taiwanese waters and airspace by Chinese warships and air force planes.

    US governor visits Taiwan after China drills

    22 Aug 2022

    In her meeting with Holcomb on Monday, President Tsai Ing-wen directly referenced Beijing's drills and called for like-minded countries to continue supporting Taiwan.

    Pelosi lands in Malaysia as China rages over Taiwan

    02 Aug 2022

    Pelosi landed at a Malaysian air force base ahead of meetings with the prime minister and the speaker of the lower house of parliament, state news agency Bernama reported.

    America will not abandon Taiwan at any cost, Pelosi tells President Tsai

    03 Aug 2022

    "Today the world faces a choice between democracy and autocracy,” she said in a short speech during a meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen. "America’s determination to preserve democracy, here in Taiwan and around the world, remains ironclad.”

    21 Chinese military jets fly into Taiwan's air defence zone

    03 Aug 2022

    China's Customs Administration said it would suspend some citrus fruits and fish imports from Taiwan over alleged "repeated" detection of excessive pesticide residue and positive coronavirus tests on packages; bans shipments of sand to the island.

    China announces new drills as US delegation visits Taiwan

    15 Aug 2022

    Pelosi was the highest-level member of the US 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.

    US lawmakers to meet Taiwan president as China seethes

    15 Aug 2022

    The unannounced two-day trip came after Beijing sent warships, missiles and jets into the waters and skies around Taiwan, a self-ruled democracy that China's leaders claim and have vowed to one day seize.

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