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  • THE CHINESE MILITARY SAYS THAT

  • IT SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED ITS

  • MILITARY DRILLS NEAR TAIWAN.

  • BUT IT'S NOT LEAVING THE ISLAND

  • ALONE, TAIWAN'S DEFENSE

  • MINISTRY SAYS THAT IT'S

  • DETECTED 25 WARPLANES AND SIX

  • TRIPS AROUND THE TAIWAN STRIP

  • ON THURSDAY.

  • THIS COMES MORE THAN A WEEK

  • AFTER THE U.S. HOUSE SPEAKER

  • VISIT TO TAIWAN.

  • CNN'S SELINA WANG REPORTS ON

  • THE LINGERING TENSIONS.

  • >> THIS SHOW OF FORCE WAS MADE

  • FOR TV.

  • CHINESE SOLDIERS PREPARING FOR

  • BATTLE.

  • WARPLANES FLOODING THE SKIES,

  • DESTROYERS IN CIRCLING THE

  • WATERS AROUND TAIWAN.

  • U.S. HOUSE SPEAKER, NANCY

  • PELOSI WAS IN TAIWAN FOR LESS

  • THAN 24 HOURS.

  • BUT BEIJING'S MILITARY DRILLS

  • IN RESPONSE ARE LASTING FOUR

  • DAYS.

  • >> NANCY PELOSI'S VISIT,

  • ACTUALLY I SEE IT AS A GIFT TO

  • PRESIDENT XI JINPING BECAUSE HE

  • CAN USE THAT TO UNITE THE

  • PEOPLE.

  • THE FORMER VISIT OUTRAGE WAS

  • BOOMING IN CHINA OVER COVID

  • LOCKDOWNS IN ECONOMIC

  • DEVASTATION FROM CHANGING

  • SPITTING ZERO COVID POLICY.

  • EVER SINCE NEWS OF PELOSI'S

  • POLICY, LEAD PROPAGANDA HAS

  • BEEN IN OVERDRIVE AND

  • CAPTIVATING THE NATION.

  • THE PROMINENT VOICES EVEN

  • SUGGESTED CHINA SHOULD SHOULD

  • THE PLANE DOWN.

  • THE COUNTRY RALLYING BEHIND

  • BEIJING THAT PELOSI'S VISIT IS

  • A DIRECT CHALLENGE TO CHINA'S

  • SOVEREIGNTY.

  • EVEN THOUGH THE COMMUNIST PARTY

  • HAS NEVER ROLLED OVER TAIWAN

  • PEOPLE IN TEN ARE TAUGHT FROM

  • ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THAT TAIWAN

  • IS PART OF THE MOTHERLAND AND

  • COMMUNICATION IS ONLY A MATTER

  • OF TIME.

  • THE NIGHT OF PELOSI'S VISIT,

  • MILLION OF PEOPLE IN CHINA

  • TRACK THEIR FLIGHT IN REALTIME,

  • WAITING TO SEE IF THE MILITARY

  • WOULD INTERVENE.

  • WHEN SHE LANDED SAFELY, THE

  • MOST HARD-CORE PREACHY HEADS

  • WERE DISAPPOINTED AND SOME EVEN

  • BREAKING INTO TEARS AT THE

  • STATE MEDIA HAD LIED TO THEM

  • ABOUT THE UNPRECEDENTED

  • MEASURES BEIJING WOULD TAKE TO

  • STOP HER.

  • BUT THE MILITARY BILLS THAT

  • FOLLOWED PROVED TO BE MORE

  • PROVOCATIVE THAN BEFORE.

  • SHOOTING ROCKETS TOWARDS TAIWAN

  • HISTORY AND OVER THE ISLAND FOR

  • THE FIRST TIME.

  • CHINESE WARPLANES FLEW EVER

  • CLOSER TO TAIWAN AND IN GREATER

  • NUMBERS THIS TIME.

  • AND CIRCLING THE ISLAND IN THE

  • PRACTICE BLOCKADE, AND WELL THE

  • MOOD IN CHINA QUICKLY CHANGED.

  • SOME EVEN STARTED THANKING

  • PELOSI ON CHINA'S TWITTER LIKE

  • PLATFORM.

  • ONE, WROTE THE UNIFICATION OF

  • THE MOTHERLAND WILL SOON BE

  • REALIZED, THANKS PELOSI FOR

  • YOUR HELPING HAND.

  • THEY PROVIDED A LOT MORE

  • BENEFIT BECAUSE THEY USED IT AS

  • AN OPPORTUNITY AND TO

  • DEMONSTRATE POWER.

  • THE MILITARY POWER AND PROVIDED

  • POLITICAL AMMUNITION THAT XI

  • JINPING NEEDS TO SOLIDIFY.

  • >> XI JINPING MAY HAVE TURNED

  • THEIR CRISIS INTO THEIR

  • ADVANTAGE AT HOME.

  • BUT IT BROUGHT HIS FURTHER

  • ANTAGONIZE THE.

  • U.S. AND INCREASE TAIWAN'S

  • RESENTMENT TOWARDS THE

  • MAINLAND.

  • SELINA WANG, CNN BEIJING.

THE CHINESE MILITARY SAYS THAT

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