China announces new military drills near Taiwan as U.S. delegation visits Taipei


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China announced more military drills around Taiwan as the self-governing island's president met with members of a new U.S. congressional delegation on Monday. The move threatens to renew tensions between Beijing and Washington after a recent and similar visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi angered China. Pelosi was the highest-level member of the U.S. government to visit Taiwan in 25 years , and her trip prompted nearly two weeks of threatening military exercises by China, which claims the island as its own. In those drills, Beijing fired missiles over the island and into the Taiwan Strait and sent warplanes...