News Snapshot:
China fired multiple missiles around Taiwan on Thursday as part of an unprecedented military drill, a day after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited. to the self-governed island that Beijing considers Chinese territory. Shortly after the scheduled start at 0400 GMT, China’s state broadcaster CCTV said the drills had begun and would end at 0400 GMT on Sunday. The broadcaster said the exercises, the largest ever conducted by China in the Taiwan Strait, would include live fire in the waters and airspace surrounding Taiwan. The Chinese People’s Army Eastern Theater Command said it had fired multiple conventional missile fires into...
