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Pelosi was the highest-profile US official to head to Taiwan in years, defying stark threats from Beijing, which views the self-ruled island as its territory. China launched a series of exercises in multiple zones around Taiwan in response, straddling some of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. Beijing is yet to formally confirm whether missiles overflew the islands during the drills, while Taipei has refused to confirm or deny the flight paths, citing intelligence concerns. But Japan's defence ministry said of the nine missiles it had detected, four were "believed to have flown over Taiwan's main island". And on...
