Blinken: China military drills are ‘significant escalation’
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In response to Pelosi’s provocative visit, China launches military exercises which Blinken said represent a "significant escalation."
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at East Asia summit foreign ministers meeting.
At the East Asia Summit, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that China's military exercises aimed at Taiwan, which included missiles fired into Japan's exclusive economic zone, represent a "significant escalation."
China began a series of military operations around Taiwan on Tuesday evening in response to the US House Speaker's visit to Taiwan.
Blinken told reporters in the Cambodian capital that “China has chosen to overreact and use Speaker Pelosi’s visit as a pretext to increase provocative military activity in and around the Taiwan Strait."
Elsewhere in his remarks, Blinken claimed that the US strongly backs Japan in light of the “dangerous actions China has taken.”
Earlier, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Russian and Chinese foreign ministers, not to mention top Southeast Asian diplomats.
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