Taiwan-China: A Timeline of Tensions in 2024

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te faced China’s largest-scale military exercises in nearly two years during his first week in office, with one analyst telling Newsweek she expects more to follow. “This is the exercise season, so I expect more military drills around Taiwan intended to intimidate and warn the new Lai administration against pursuing independence actions,” Bonnie Glaser, managing director of the Indo-Pacific Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, told Newsweek. China says Taiwan is its territory, although the Chinese Communist Party has never governed there. Chinese President Xi Jinping has vowed to unify his nation with…