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Continued from Front Ing-wen, which refuses to
Taiwan has put its military recognize Taiwan as part
on alert and staged civil of China.
defense drills, but the over- China said Friday that more
all mood remained calm than 100 warplanes and 10
on Friday. Flights have been warships have taken part
canceled or diverted and in live-fire military drills sur-
fishermen have remained rounding Taiwan over the
in port to avoid the Chinese past two days. Also, mainly
drills. symbolic sanctions against
On the Chinese coast Pelosi and her family were
across from Taiwan, tourists announced.
gathered to try to catch a On the China coast, fighter
glimpse of military aircraft. jets could be heard flying
A minister at the Chinese overhead, and tourists tak-
Embassy in Washington, ing photos chanted, "Let's
Jing Quan, told reporters take Taiwan back," looking
that Pelosi's mission of sup- out into the blue waters of
port for the democratic the Taiwan Strait from Ping-
government of Taiwan has tan island, a popular scenic
had "a severe impact on spot in China's Fujian prov-
the political foundation of ince.
China-U.S. relations, serious- Pelosi's visit has stirred emo-
ly infringed upon China's tions among the Chinese
sovereignty and (territorial) U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, center, arrives at the plenary session of the lower house in To- public, and the govern-
integrity and ... undermines kyo, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022. ment's response "makes
peace and stability across Associated Press us feel our motherland is
the Taiwan Straits." very powerful and gives
Long term, a significantly 40% of all fossil-fuel emis- officer, now a senior fellow defense chiefs at an Asia us confidence that the re-
more confrontational re- sions. at the Atlantic Council. The security conference in Sin- turn of Taiwan is the irresist-
lationship between China Ominously, experts in Chi- same could happen now gapore and Foreign Minis- ible trend," said Wang Lu,
and the U.S. threatens an na-U.S. relations warned over Taiwan, Culver said. ter Wang Yi and Secretary a tourist from neighboring
equilibrium under which that China's diplomatic "So I don't know how this of State Antony Blinken at a Zhejiang province.
Presidents Joe Biden and and military moves ap- ends. We've seen how it Group of 20 meeting in In- China is a "powerful coun-
Xi Jinping's governments peared to go beyond re- begins." donesia. try and it will not allow any-
have sparred on human taliatory measures for the China's measures this week Those talks were viewed as one to offend its own terri-
rights, trade, competition visit and could open a new, are the latest steps intend- steps in a positive direction tory," said Liu Bolin, a high
and countless other issues more openly hostile era, ed to punish the U.S. for al- in an otherwise poisoned school student visiting the
but avoided direct con- and a more uncertain time lowing the visit to the island relationship. Now, talks island.
flict and maintained oc- for Taiwan's democratic it claims as its own territory, have been suspended China's insistence that Tai-
casional top-level contacts government. to be annexed by force if even on climate, where the wan is its territory and its
toward other matters, in- China-U.S. relations are "in necessary. China on Thurs- two countries' envoys had threat to use force to re-
cluding cutting climate- a downward spiral," said day launched threatening met multiple times. claim control have fea-
damaging emissions. Bonnie Glaser, head of the military exercises just off China stopped short of in- tured in Communist Party
A joint U.S.-China deal to Asia program at the Ger- Taiwan's coasts, running terrupting economic and statements, the education
fight climate change struck man Marshall Fund. through Sunday. trade talks, where it is look- system and the state-con-
by Xi and then-President "And I think that China is Some missiles were sent fly- ing to Biden to lift tariffs im- trolled media for more than
Barack Obama in Novem- likely to change the status ing over Taiwan itself, Chi- posed by President Don- seven decades since the
ber of 2014 is credited as quo in the Taiwan Strait in nese officials told state me- ald Trump on imports from sides were divided amid
a turning point that led to ways that are going to be dia — a significant increase China. civil war in 1949.
the landmark 2015 Paris harmful to Taiwan and are in China's menacing of the On Friday, China's Foreign Taiwan residents over-
agreement in which nearly going to be disadvanta- island. Ministry said dialogue be- whelmingly favor maintain-
every nation in the world geous to the United States," China routinely complains tween U.S. and Chinese ing the status quo of de
pledged to try to curb emis- Glaser said. when Taiwan has direct regional commanders facto independence and
sions of heat-trapping gas- In recent years, other contacts with foreign gov- and defense department reject China's demands
es. Seven years later during rounds of tensions between ernments, but its response heads would be canceled, that the island unify with
climate talks in Glasgow, China and its neighbors to the Pelosi visit — she was along with talks on military the mainland under Com-
another U.S.-China deal over the India border, re- the highest-ranking Ameri- maritime safety. Coopera- munist control.
helped smooth over bumps gional islands and the can official in 25 years — tion on returning illegal im- Beyond Taiwan, five of
to another international cli- South China Sea have has been unusually strong. migrants, criminal investiga- the missiles fired by China
mate deal. ended with China assert- It appears to derail a rare tions, transnational crime, landed in Japan's Exclusive
China and the United ing new territorial claims encouraging note — high- illegal drugs and climate Economic Zone off Hateru-
States are the world's No. 1 and enforcing them, noted level in-person meetings change will be suspended, ma, an island far south of
and No. 2 climate polluters, John Culver, a former East between top officials in re- the ministry said. Japan's main islands, Japa-
together producing nearly Asia national intelligence cent months including the China's actions come nese Defense Minister No-
ahead of a key congress of buo Kishi said. He said Ja-
LIKE US ON the ruling Communist Party pan protested the missiles
later this year at which Pres-
to China as "serious threats
ident Xi is expected to ob- to Japan's national security
tain a third five-year term and the safety of the Japa-
as party leader. With the nese people."
economy stumbling, the In Tokyo, where Pelosi is
party has stoked national- winding up her Asia trip,
Facebook.com/arubatoday/ ism and issued near-daily she said China cannot stop
attacks on the government U.S. officials from visiting
of Taiwanese President Tsai Taiwan.q