US: China's coercion of Taiwan to grow

By Agence France-Presse

Aug 19, 2022 12:14 am

TAIPEI: The United States expects China to ramp up its military, diplomatic and economic 'coercion' of Taiwan, its top envoy in East Asia said on Thursday, after Beijing's unprecedented drills around the self-ruling island it claims as its own.

The Chinese military has staged days of air and sea exercises in the Taiwan Strait after visits to the island by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last week and a congressional delegation earlier this week.

MISSILE MEN Taiwanese soldiers demonstrate the operation of the locally developed Sky Bow 3 surface-to-air missile system during a media event at the Hualien Air Force Base in the island’s southeastern Hualien county on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. AFP PHOTO

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