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Beijing views visits from foreign governments to the island as de facto recognition of Taiwan as independent and a challenge to China’s claim of sovereignty.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. annual defense spending bill in what has come to be a standard Chinese practice.Ĭhina also conducted large-scale live-fire military exercises in August in response to U.S.

That came after China expressed anger at Taiwan-related provisions in a U.S. Monday, 47 of the Chinese planes crossed the median line of the 160 kilometer (100 mile) -Taiwan Strait, an unofficial boundary once tacitly accepted by both sides, according to the Defense Ministry. That has seen the ruling Communist Party’s increasingly powerful military wing, the People’s Liberation Army, send planes or ships toward the island on a near-daily basis.īetween 6 a.m.