As US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi paid a day visit to the self-governing island on Thursday, China began its largest-ever military drills around Taiwan, angering Beijing.
It has never happened before for missiles to pass over Taiwan.
After a brief visit that resisted Beijing’s increasingly severe threats, which see the island as part of their territory, Pelosi left Taiwan on Wednesday.
The most prominent elected US figure to visit Taiwan in the previous 25 years was US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is second in line for the president. She said that by being there, the United States made it “unequivocally clear” that it would “not desert” a democratic ally like Taiwan.
According to official broadcaster CCTV, the Chinese military started the military exercise on Thursday at noon (0400 GMT) with live-fire drills in the waters bordering Taiwan.
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