In News: China announces military exercise opposite Taiwan
China’s military exercise comes ahead of U.S. Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plans to visit to the island country.
The ruling Communist Party’s military wing, the People’s Liberation Army, was conducting “live-fire exercises” near the Pingtan islands off Fujian province, China.
China says Taiwan has no right to conduct foreign relations. I
t sees visits by American officials as encouragement for the island to make its decades-old de facto independence official.
Taiwan and China split in 1949 after a civil war that ended with a communist victory on the mainland.
The two governments say they are one country but disagree over which is entitled to national leadership.
They have no official relations but are linked by billions of dollars in trade and investment.
