The exercises mark an escalation in Beijing’s response to Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen’s U.S. visit
TAIPEI—China’s military launched exercises around Taiwan in an apparent escalation of its response to an international tour by the self-governing island’s president that includedHours after President Tsai Ing-wen returned to Taiwan on Friday night, Chinese maritime safety authorities said the country’s navy planned to conduct seven live-fire exercises over the course of 12 days off the coast of Fujian province, which faces Taiwan, starting Saturday morning.
Taiwan’s military said it had detected 42 Chinese military aircraft and eight Chinese naval vessels near the island between 6 a.m. and 11 a.m. local time on Saturday, with 29 of the aircraft crossing the median line of the 100-mile-wide Taiwan Strait that separates Taiwan from China. Ms. Tsai flew back to Taipei from California, where she met with U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in the highest-level political meeting that a Taiwanese president has ever held while on U.S. soil. Beijing, which considers Taiwan its sovereign territory and opposes all diplomatic contact with Ms. Tsai, had threatened unspecified retaliation in response to the meeting.
, which included sanctions against the Hudson Institute and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library for hosting the Taiwanese leader in the U.S.
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