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New Delhi: China has on Saturday started conducting military exercises in the Taiwan Strait. This comes after Beijing warned Washington of severe consequences if US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan during her upcoming tour of Asia. For the unversed, while US do not have any formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan, if she travels to Taiwan, she would be the highest-ranking US elected official to visit the self-governing democratic island since 1997. The US on its part has not clarified whether Pelosi will indeed travel to Taipei, but the issue was raised by Chinese president Xi Jinping during his virtual...
