China began military exercises in the Taiwan Strait on Saturday. It comes after Beijing warned Washington about the consequences if US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi goes to Taiwan on her upcoming trip to Asia.
For the uninitiated, although the United States does not have diplomatic relations with Taiwan, if he visits Taiwan, he will be the highest-ranking American to visit the self-governing democratic island. since 1997.
The United States, for its part, has not said whether Pelosi will actually go to Taipei, but Chinese President Xi Jinping raised the question during a friendly meeting with US President Joe Biden earlier this week. Biden ‘doesn’t play with fire’, according to multiple reports
