CORRECTION Taiwan US China
PINGTUNG, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s foreign minister says China is using military drills to rehearse an invasion of the self-governing island democracy while Taiwan’s military began its own live-fire exercises in a show of readiness to thwart off a potential attack. Foreign Minister Joseph Wu says Beijing aims to establish its dominance in the Western Pacific and annex Taiwan, which it claims as its own territory. He says that would include control of the East and South China Seas and preventing the U.S. and its allies from aiding Taiwan. China says its drills were prompted by the visit to the island last week by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but Wu said China was using her trip as a pretext for intimidating moves it has long had in the works.
