News Snapshot:
Chinese tourists look out across the Taiwan Strait, on the coast of Pingtan island, the closest point in China to Taiwan: German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock said during a visit to China last week her government was monitoring tensions in the strait. Photograph: Greg Baker/AFP China said its military was “on high alert at all times to resolutely defend national sovereignty and security” after a United States navy warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday. The USS Milius conducted what Washington described as “a routine transit” less than a week after China’s military exercises around Taiwan in response to...