{"id":56792,"date":"2022-07-25T18:08:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T18:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/07\/25\/taiwan-holds-drills-amid-pelosi-visit-concern-china-tension\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:41:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:41:35","slug":"taiwan-holds-drills-amid-pelosi-visit-concern-china-tension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/flashpoints\/2022\/07\/25\/taiwan-holds-drills-amid-pelosi-visit-concern-china-tension\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan holds drills amid Pelosi visit concern, China tension"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BEIJING \u2014 Taiwan\u2019s capital staged air raid drills Monday and its military mobilized for routine defense exercises, coinciding with concerns over a forceful Chinese response to a possible visit to the island by U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While there was no direct link between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/china\/\" target=\"_blank\">China<\/a>\u2019s renewed threats and Taiwan\u2019s defensive moves, they underscore the possibility of a renewed crisis in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2022\/07\/20\/uss-benfold-transits-taiwan-strait-a-move-china-calls-provocative\/\" target=\"_blank\">Taiwan Strait<\/a>, considered a potential hotspot for conflict that could envelop the entire region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Air raid sirens were sounded in the capital Taipei and the military was holding its annual multi-day Han Kuang drills, including joint air and sea exercises and the mobilization of tanks and troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Taipei, police directed people to shelters when a siren went off shortly after lunchtime. Streets emptied and shops closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"6000\" height=\"4000\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22206289524625.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-98911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22206289524625.jpg.jpg 6000w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22206289524625.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22206289524625.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22206289524625.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22206289524625.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22206289524625.jpg.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 6000px) 100vw, 6000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Taiwanese people take cover inside of a basement shelter during the Wanan air raid drill, in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, July 25, 2022. (Chiang Ying-ying\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn recent years,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2022\/01\/24\/china-sends-39-warplanes-toward-taiwan-largest-in-new-year\/\">Chinese military planes<\/a>&nbsp;have frequently harassed Taiwan, and the war between Russia and Ukraine broke out in February this year,\u201d Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je told reporters, referencing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/ukraine\/2022\/02\/25\/as-russia-attacks-ukraine-taiwanese-wonder-what-china-will-do\/\">concerns that a similar conflict<\/a>&nbsp;could break out in East Asia. \u201cAll these things make us understand the importance of being vigilant in times of peace and we need to be prepared if there is war.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pelosi has not confirmed when, or even if, she will visit, but President Joe Biden last week told reporters that U.S. military officials believed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2022\/07\/20\/military-thinks-pelosi-taiwan-trip-not-a-good-idea-biden-says\/\">such a trip was \u201cnot a good idea.\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;Administration officials are believed to be critical of a possible trip, both for the problematic timing and the lack of coordination with the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China\u2019s authoritarian ruling Communist Party considers democratic, self-ruling Taiwan its own territory, to be annexed by force if necessary, and regularly advertises that threat by staging military exercises and flying warplanes into Taiwan\u2019s air defense identification zone or across the center line of the 100-mile-wide Taiwan Strait.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2022\/04\/15\/china-stages-military-exercises-as-us-lawmakers-visit-taiwan\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22105247300499.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">China stages military exercises as US lawmakers visit Taiwan<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">China said its military staged exercises Friday to reinforce its threat to use force to bring Taiwan under its control, as U.S. lawmakers visited the island.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beijing says those actions are aimed at deterring advocates of the island\u2019s formal independence and foreign allies \u2014 principally the U.S. \u2014 from interfering, more than 70 years after the sides split amid civil war. Surveys routinely show that Taiwan\u2019s 23 million people reject China\u2019s assertions that the island is a Chinese province that has strayed and must be brought under Beijing\u2019s control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pelosi, long a sharp critic of Beijing, is second in line to the White House. She is viewed as a Biden proxy by China, which demands members of Congress follow the commitments made by previous administrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taiwan is among the few issues that enjoys broad bipartisan support among lawmakers and within the administration, with Biden stating earlier this year that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2022\/05\/23\/biden-us-would-intervene-with-military-to-defend-taiwan\/\">the U.S. would defend Taiwan<\/a>&nbsp;if it came under attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. law requires Washington provide Taiwan with the means to defend itself and treat all threats to the island as matters of \u201cgrave concern,\u201d but remains ambiguous on whether it would commit forces in response to an attack from China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though the sides lack formal diplomatic ties, the U.S. is Taiwan\u2019s chief provider of outside defense assistance and political support, in a reflection of its desire to limit China\u2019s growing influence and maintain a robust American presence in the Western Pacific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During a visit to Indonesia on Sunday, U.S. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/china\/2022\/07\/24\/china-more-aggressive-dangerous-to-us-milley-says\/\">Chinese military has become significantly more aggressive<\/a>&nbsp;and dangerous over the past five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Milley\u2019s Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng, told him in a call earlier this month that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2022\/07\/08\/china-demands-end-to-us-taiwan-military-collusion\/\">Beijing had \u201cno room for compromise\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;on issues such as Taiwan.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/china\/2022\/03\/20\/china-fully-militarized-isles-indo-pacific-commander-says\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22079501502194.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">China fully militarized isles, Indo-Pacific commander says<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The efforts were part of China\u2019s flexing its military muscle, U.S. Indo-Pacific commander Adm. John C. Aquilino said.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Beijing had repeatedly expressed its \u201csolemn position\u201d over a potential visit by Pelosi, who would be the highest-ranking U.S. elected official to visit Taiwan since 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are fully prepared,\u201d Zhao told reporters at a daily briefing. \u201cIf the U.S. is bent on going its own way, China will take firm and strong measures to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China has not said what specific actions it would take, although speculation has centered on a new round of threatening military exercises or even an attempt to prevent Pelosi\u2019s plane from landing by declaring a no-fly zone over Taiwan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf the U.S. is determined to make [a visit] happen, they know China will take unprecedented tough measures and the U.S. must make military preparations,\u201d said Shi Yinhong, an international relations expert at Beijing\u2019s Renmin University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cExpect huffing and puffing, maybe some fire-breathing, military posturing, and perhaps economic punishment of Taiwan,\u201d said Michael Mazza, a defense and China expert at the American Enterprise Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The timing of a Pelosi visit, which could happen sometime in early August, is especially sensitive, hinging on multiple factors. Among them is the anniversary of the founding of the People\u2019s Liberation Army \u2014 the military branch of the ruling Communist Party \u2014 which falls on Aug. 1, a date used to stoke nationalism and rally the troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chinese leaders are also under pressure from hardline nationalist forces within the party ranks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That harkens back to the Taiwan Strait crisis of 1995 and 1996, when China held exercises and launched missiles into waters north and south of the island in response to a U.S. visit by the island\u2019s then-president Lee Teng-hui. The U.S. responded by dispatching two aircraft carrier battle groups to the area, a move that helped spur China\u2019s massive military upgrading in the years since that has radically changed the balance of power in Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xi is meanwhile seeking a third five-year term as party leader at a congress later this year and needs to show he is in charge amid a slowing economy and a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/covid-health-beijing-economy-guangzhou-6f3b44ff1f550b74844b9569070de024\">public backlash against his \u201czero-COVID\u201d policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, the situation appears to be more serious than in 1995-96, said Bonnie Glaser, director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf the Chinese want to demonstrate resolve they have many ways to do so,\u201d Glaser said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China doesn\u2019t want to create a \u201ccrisis for crisis\u2019 sake,\u201d but could try to use the possibility of a Pelosi visit to advance its agenda, said Oriana Skylar Mastro, an expert on Chinese military affairs and foreign policy at Stanford University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China might take the opportunity to test out capabilities through a large-scale amphibious exercise, which it would justify as a response to an \u201caggressive move\u201d by the U.S., Mastro said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo I think they\u2019ll use it as an opportunity to make advances that could be problematic, but [which] they wanted to do anyway regardless of the Pelosi visit,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Associated Press writer Huizhong Wu and videographer Johnson Lai contributed to this report from Taipei, Taiwan.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was no direct link between China&#8217;s threats and Taiwan&#8217;s civil defense drills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":98906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":8,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[101,8,23,93,12,25],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1351],"class_list":["post-56792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-flashpoints","category-home","category-middle-column","category-news","category-newsletters"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"RTNOSYNJRBB2RDALTFABWBRAIU","arc_canonical_url":"\/flashpoints\/2022\/07\/25\/taiwan-holds-drills-amid-pelosi-visit-concern-china-tension\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - 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