News Snapshot:
, Shandong Province, some 1,800 kilometers from the Taiwan Strait. The House Speaker left for Asia on July 29. So when the 80th Group Army sounded its rhetoric, she was still opaque on the news about her potential stop in Taiwan, the self-ruling island China is trying to reclaim. Chinese leader Xi Jinping once again conjured his “ play with fire ” warning to U.S. President Biden in a phone conversation on July 28. The last time he used such a phrase was last November when all eyes were on Washington as Taipei came under record military provocation from Beijing....