{"id":1581430,"date":"2022-07-31T13:20:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T17:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1581430"},"modified":"2022-07-31T13:20:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T17:20:18","slug":"china-conducts-live-fire-exercises-ahead-of-pelosis-potential-taiwan-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-conducts-live-fire-exercises-ahead-of-pelosis-potential-taiwan-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"China Conducts Live-Fire Exercises Ahead of Pelosi\u2019s Potential Taiwan Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-conducts-live-fire-exercises-ahead-of-pelosis-potential-taiwan-trip%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1581430&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-china\">China<\/a> said it would conduct live-fire exercises in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-taiwan\">Taiwan<\/a> Strait after warning Pelosi not to visit Taiwan, a self-ruled island that the communist regime sees as its own territory.<\/p>\n<p>On July 28, China\u2019s Maritime Safety Administration announced that the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) would conduct \u201clive-fire exercises\u201d in the Southeast waters of the Tanpai Province, in the narrowest parts of the Strait less than 80 miles from mainland Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/07\/31\/Taiwan-Coordinate-for-military-exercises-1200x599.png\"><\/a> Coordinates for China\u2019s planned military exercise near the Taiwan Strait on July 30, 2022. Coordinates\u2019 approximate locations are marked by green flags and include: 25\u00b025\u203227\u2033N 119\u00b048\u203215\u2033E, 25\u00b021\u203255\u2033N 119\u00b044\u203235\u2033E, 25\u00b014\u203245\u2033N 119\u00b048\u203217\u2033E, 25\u00b022\u203210\u2033N 119\u00b053\u203227\u2033E (Google Maps\/Screenshot via The Epoch Times) <\/p>\n<p>The exercises are the latest in a series of escalating military actions aimed at intimidating the democratic island, which has seen frequently Chinese aircraft incursions in its air defense identification zone for nearly two years. The drills also came ahead of a reported visit by\u00a0U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, which the communist regime has vehemently protested against.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi would be the highest-ranking sitting U.S. official to visit the self-ruled island Taiwan in 25 years since then-Speaker Newt Gingrich visited in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker\u2019s office declined to confirm or deny the Speaker\u2019s international travel in advance due to security considerations.<\/p>\n<p> Threats <\/p>\n<p>After reports of Pelosi\u2019s trip emerged, the Chinese regime threatened\u00a0\u201cforceful measures\u201d against the United States and Taiwan. Following those threats, President Joe Biden publicly said that Pelosi\u2019s trip was \u201ca bad idea\u201d and that the military was against it.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi subsequently said that she had not spoken to Biden about the trip but that the military may have been concerned China would shoot down her plane.<\/p>\n<p>Hu Xinjin, the former editor-in-chief of the communist regime\u2019s mouthpiece media, Global Times, threatened on July 29 that the Chinese military \u201chas the right<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China said it would conduct live-fire exercises in the Taiwan Strait after warning Pelosi not to visit Taiwan, a self-ruled island that the communist regime sees as its own territory. On July 28, China\u2019s Maritime Safety Administration announced that the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) would conduct \u201clive-fire exercises\u201d in the Southeast waters of the Tanpai [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":720,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1581430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/720"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1581430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}