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Chennai: A fter US House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s high-profile visit to Taiwan concluded Wednesday, conversations on the island have shifted to how the military drills launched by China in response will play out. China’s exercises on Taiwan’s territorial waters are about “diplomatic signalling,” Wen-Ti Sung, a political scientist who teaches at the Australian National University’s Taiwan Studies programme, told ThePrint. “Pelosi’s visit irritates China since it means greater recognition for Taiwan. In that case, the move is precisely to step up military action in territorial waters to cancel out Pelosi’s diplomatic visit,” he said. Pelosi was awarded Taiwan’s highest civilian...
