Day: August 4, 2022

China’s Military Drills Continue Off Taiwan

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Japan’s leader on Friday called for China to stop its military exercises around Taiwan, a day after five of the Chinese missiles launched during the drills landed in waters claimed by Japan for its exclusive economic use. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called for “an immediate halt” to the exercises, which he said were having “a serious impact on the peace and stability of the region and the world,” Kyodo News reported. He spoke to reporters after meeting with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose high-profile visit to Taiwan this week infuriated China…

US watching Chinese military drills ‘very closely’ as ballistic missiles fired into Taiwan strait – live

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From 3h ago US watching China military drills ‘very closely’ The US has been watching the Chinese military exercises near Japan “very very closely,” said John Kirby, the US’s National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications. In an interview with MSNBC on Thursday, Kirby said: “We’ve been watching this very, very closely. It’s concerning. It’s not just concerning to us, but it’s concerning, of course, to the people of Taiwan. It’s concerning to to our allies in the region, especially Japan.” In recent days, China has been conducting its largest-ever…

China sends missiles flying over Taiwan

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TOURISTS, CLAD in shorts and sandals, gathered on China’s Pingtan island. Some clutched umbrellas to ward off the sun. Those with cameras tended to point them at the blue waters of the Haitan Strait, which divides Pingtan from Fujian, a province on the country’s east coast. Their holiday snaps on August 4th captured military helicopters swarming overhead and rockets streaking into the sky. These were some of the first missiles fired from the Chinese mainland towards the waters off Taiwan in 26 years. A plane carrying Nancy Pelosi, the speaker…

From Cambodia, China’s Foreign Minister Seeks Rhetorical Support on Taiwan Crisis

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Advertisement Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is in Cambodia from August 3 to 5, attending a series of ASEAN and “ASEAN-Plus” meetings. Wang’s visit comes amid the highest tensions in the Taiwan Strait has seen in over 20 years, with Chinese holding live-fire military drills in areas surrounding the island of Taiwan from Thursday through Sunday. China’s military exercises, which sent missiles flying over the island to splash down in waters to its east and saw fighters and naval vessels repeatedly cross the median line in the Taiwan Strait, are…

‘Outright farce’: Chinese foreign minister on Pelosi’s Taiwan visit – video

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Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi has described US house speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan as a ‘complete farce’ at meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in Cambodia. ‘The irreversible historical trend of Taiwan’s return to the motherland cannot be changed. Those who offend China will surely be punished.’ The United States was violating China’s sovereignty under the guise of democracy, he said The Guardian