Commentary
Military fallout from U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit is stretching from Beijing to Taipei and Tokyo to Washington.
Remarking on her recent visit to Taipei, Pelosi vowed that China would not be able to isolate Taiwan. She also defied the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), saying that Beijing does not get to dictate who can and cannot visit the island nation and that Beijing does not make the U.S. government’s travel schedule.
The CCP’s reaction to Pelosi’s visit was to hold several days of live-fire exercises and large-scale military drills—a show of force meant to intimidate Taiwan and its allies. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) violated Taiwan’s sea space by crossing the median line in the Taiwan Strait. They fired missiles and sent more than 200 military aircraft and over 50 warships to the region….