China’s military payback for Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei is due to end Sunday after a frightening display of firepower that sent global shipping off course.
| Chinese warships and planes continued to cross the median line in the Taiwan Strait on Sunday in what Beijing flagged would be the last day of the live fire drills that have shaken the region and forced commercial ships to make lengthy detours.has reverberated across the region. In addition to firing missiles into nearby Japanese territorial waters, one of the areas marked out by Beijing overlapped with the Philippine’s economic exclusion zone.
“The recent coercion from PRC’s drills around us aimed to change the status quo of Taiwan Strait, violated our sovereignty, and caused tension in the Indo-Pacific region. China halted communication through various channels with the United States as part of its response to Ms Pelosi’s visit, including between military theatre commands and on climate change.
On Friday, Singapore’s foreign minister Vivian Balakrishnan told reporters of his exchange with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Phnom Penh. “I know you have to compete, maybe even confront, but we all have skin in this game. And we do want America and China to get along,” he said, referring his exchange with Mr Wang.
Taiwan’s maritime and port bureau advised ships to find alternative routes and “depart the island’s seven big ports during China’s exercises”. Just under half of the world’s container ships passed through the Taiwan Strait in the first seven months of this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.“The global supply chain is interconnected and all the major stretches like Taiwan Strait are nerve centres of these value chains,” said Christian Roeloffs chief executive of the Hamburg-based Container xChangea tech platform for container logistic companies. “If any one stretch is blocked, the undercurrents are felt across the system.
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