Chinese fighters and warships have massed around Taiwan, marking the start of three days of military drills. The exercises follow a visit to America by Taiwan’s president
between Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, and the speaker of America’s House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, in California on April 5th. China had promised “resolute counter-measures” if the meeting—the first between a speaker and a Taiwanese president on American soil—went ahead.
Earlier in the week Taiwanese and Japanese officials said that China had deployed an aircraft-carrier strike group to waters about 200 miles east of Taiwan. An American carrier strike group also conducted joint exercises with Japanese forces in the East China Sea and Pacific from April 4th to 6th, according to Japan’s defence ministry.
They are also wary of a Chinese threat to board Taiwanese civilian vessels. On April 5th the maritime-safety administration of China’s Fujian province, which lies opposite Taiwan, announced a three-day patrol-and-inspection operation in the Taiwan Strait that it said would include moves to board cargo and construction ships for “on-site inspections”.
China’s relatively restrained response to the meeting so far appears to reflect a desire by its leader, Xi Jinping, to repair some of the damage done to his country’s economy and international relations during three years of covid-19-induced isolation. In recent months Mr Xi’s diplomatic charm offensive has centred on Europe, where he hopes to encourage economic re-engagement and to undermine American efforts to limit his country’s access to Western technology.
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