After a trip that drew China's wrath, a defiant Nancy Pelosi concluded her visit to Taiwan on Wednesday with a pledge that the American commitment to democracy remains ironclad.
America has trodden carefully in its relations with communist China, especially on the issue of Taiwan
A fresh record high monthly trade deficit in July also weighed on sentiment in the domestic currency market, traders said
Restrictions range from fruit and fish imports to export of natural sand
The latest Chinese mission included 16 Chinese Su-30 fighters and 11 other jets, Taiwan's defence ministry said
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi departed Taiwan on Wednesday after meeting with the president and other officials in a visit that heightened tensions with China. Pelosi and five other members of Congress were headed to South Korea, the next stop on an Asia tour that also includes Singapore, Malaysia and Japan. In Taiwan, she said her delegation was showing their commitment to the self-governing island that China claims and says must come under its control. China staged military drills after her arrival and called her visit a provocation that infringes on its sovereignty.
A few Chinese old-timers read the pages of a newspaper on Wednesday hung up behind glass on an outdoor display board in a relic of pre-smartphone days, when that's how people in China got the news. Wang Junzhong, 70, peered at an editorial in the Global Times, an outspoken, fiercely nationalistic voice of the ruling Communist Party. The headline read, To safeguard national sovereignty and security, the Chinese military dares to show the spirit of the sword." After weeks of threatening rhetoric, China showed the spirit but stopped short of any direct military confrontation with the US over the visit to Taiwan of a senior American politician, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Instead, it opted for military drills as a show of force, sending fighter jets into the air and scrambling crews on navy ships in simulated emergencies after Pelosi defied Chinese warnings and flew into Taiwan on a US government plane on Tuesday night. The failure to stop Pelosi from visiting Taiwan - a self-governing
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