China Conducts Live-Fire Exercises In Response to Pelosi’s Potential Taiwan Trip

China said it would conduct live-fire exercises in the Taiwan Strait after warning Pelosi not to visit Taiwan, a self-ruled island that the communist regime sees as its own territory.

On July 28, China’s Maritime Safety Administration announced that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) would conduct “live-fire exercises” in the Southeast waters of the Tanpai Province, in the narrowest parts of the Strait less than 80 miles from mainland Taiwan.

Coordinates for China’s planned military exercise near the Taiwan Strait on July 30, 2022. Coordinates’ approximate locations are marked by green flags and include: 25°25′27″N 119°48′15″E, 25°21′55″N 119°44′35″E, 25°14′45″N 119°48′17″E, 25°22′10″N 119°53′27″E (Google Maps/Screenshot via The Epoch Times)

The military exercises are the latest in a series of escalating rounds between the the United States and its allies and China, where neither of the two nuclear superpowers is backing off—at least not officially—after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly planned a trip to Taiwan.

Pelosi would be the highest-ranking sitting U.S. official to visit the self-ruled island Taiwan in 25 years since then-Speaker Newt Gingrich visited in 1997.

Pelosi’s office declined to confirm or deny the Speaker’s international travel in advance due to security considerations.

China Reacts

The military exercises are a culmination of the communist regime’s growing agitation about the United States’ “One China policy,” which differs from the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) demands outlined in its “One China principle.” Taiwan seeks to be recognized on the world stage as a sovereign nation, citing its own democratically-elected government, Constitution, and military. The CCP and the Taiwanese government are still at war, as no peace arrangement was ever signed to end the Chinese civil war between the nationalists and communists.

Hu Xinjin, the former editor in chief of the communist regime’s mouthpiece media, Global Times, threatened on July 29 that the

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