China announces military drills following Pelosi’s Taiwan visit: Report

TIL Desk/World/Beijing/ Starting from Thursday, China has said that it will carry out five days of “necessary and just” military drills in the seas around Taiwan following US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to the island, which came in defiance of Beijing’s repeated warnings, a media report said.

According to the report, China made the announcement shortly after Pelosi left Taiwan on Wednesday after her brief and controversial visit. “The exercises will take place in some of the world’s busiest waterways and will include long-range live ammunition shooting,” the report quoted China as saying.

Meanwhile in response, Taiwan said that it had already scrambled jets to warn them off. It has also asked ships to find alternative routes to avoid the drills and is negotiating with neighbouring Japan and the Philippines to find alternative aviation routes.

President Tsai Ing-wen said the country was facing “deliberately heightened military threats”. Pelosi, the most senior US politician to visit Taiwan in 25 years, made the stop on Tuesday as part of a wider Asian tour despite China warning her against it.

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