China Launches Live-Fire Drills, Missiles Around Taiwan After Pelosi Visit

China encircled Taiwan with rocket and ballistic-missile fire while testing the democratic self-governing island’s defenses with navy ships and war planes, as Beijing protested a visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

“The exercises have begun,” China’s navy said on its official social-media account shortly after noon local time Thursday.

The show of force in response to Mrs. Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own territory, disrupted commercial air and sea routes and raised concerns about further military escalation. Taiwan and the U.S. condemned China’s moves, with the White House announcing that the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier and its accompanying ships would remain in the region “to monitor the situation.”

The four-day exercises—which included firing nearly a dozen missiles—are taking place in six zones delineated by the Chinese military. Several face the island’s biggest commercial ports and overlap with what Taiwan claims as its territorial waters.

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