Although much attention has been on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, the real potential for a military showdown comes now that she has left.
China’s military has said it will conduct a series of live-fire drills beginning on Thursday. A post on Chinese state media offered coordinates for six swaths of sea surrounding Taiwan, three of which overlap with areas that Taiwan says are a part of its territorial waters.
Where China Plans Military Drills
Some of the areas are inside what Taiwan says are its territorial waters, and they are closer to Taiwan than similar areas announced during the Taiwan Strait crisis in the mid-1990s.
1995-96
exercise areas
CHINA
Fuzhou
MATSU
ISLANDS
2022 exercise areas
Taipei
Xiamen
KINMEN
ISLANDS
Taketomi
TAIWAN
Kaohsiung
SOUTH
CHINA SEA
Taiwan territorial waters
Taiwan marine border
Exercises will be held in areas less than 10 miles from the Taiwanese coast.
PACIFIC
OCEAN
Batanes
50 miles
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