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<governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote:

...Send Kamala Harris to suck them all off until Trump is elected again.

China pressed ahead with military drills near Taiwan and flew
drones close to Japan on Friday, escalating tensions in the
strait that have threatened to boil over since Taipei welcomed
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on a historic visit.

Taiwan’s defense ministry said Chinese warships and aircraft
continued drills in waters around the island, adding that
Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) forces crossed the median
line – the halfway point between the island and mainland China –
in a move it called a “highly provocative act.”

The line has previously been an informal but largely respected
border of control between Beijing and Taipei. Taiwan’s military
responded with radio warnings and put air patrol forces, naval
ships and shore-based missile systems on alert, the ministry
added.

Two Chinese drones also flew around Okinawa prefecture in Japan
on Thursday, prompting the country’s Air Self-Defense Force to
scramble fighter jets in response, according to a statement from
Tokyo’s Ministry of Defense on Friday.

In all, 49 planes entered its air defense identification zone
(ADIZ), Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said in a
statement. The ministry had previously suggested 68 aircraft
flew into the area, but later clarified that 19 operated west of
the median line dividing the Taiwan Strait.

The moves comes as China doubles down on rhetoric blaming the US
for spiking tensions and forcing it into a response. Beijing
announced sanctions against Pelosi and her immediate family and
said it would suspend cooperation with Washington on several
issues, including fighting climate change, on Friday.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/04/asia/china-taiwan-pelosi-japan- tensions-intl-hnk/index.html

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