Many people on self-ruled Taiwan look upon China's unprecedented military exercises with calm resignation, doubting that war is imminent and if anything, feeling pride in their democratic island's determination to defend itself
China, reacting to a visit to Taiwan last week by Nancy Pelosi, the U.S. House speaker, has sent ships and aircraft across an unofficial buffer between Taiwan and China's coast and missiles over its capital, Taipei, and into waters surrounding the island since Thursday.
Lou Wei-Chieh, a military director general of political warfare, told reporters the annual live-fire exercises aimed at beating back invaders intent on storming island beaches, were routine and "unrelated to the current situation".Taiwan rejects China's sovereignty claims, says the island's people should decide its future and vows to defend its democracy and freedom. Taiwan says China was using Pelosi's trip as a pretext for intimidation it had long had in the works.
"We're not feeling particularly nervous," said Jenny Cheng, a 23-year-old civil servant. "Nothing special is going to happen."Robert Tsao, founder and former chairman of Taiwanese chip maker United Microelectronics CorpChina said this week it would conduct more drills focusing on anti-submarine and sea assault operations - confirming the fears of some security analysts and diplomats that it would keep up the pressure on Taiwan's defences.
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