Blinken: China military drills are 'significant escalation'

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday that China's military exercises aimed at Taiwan, including missiles fired into Japan's exclusive economic zone, represent a 'significant escalation' and that he has urged Beijing to back down. 9News

, including missiles fired into Japan's exclusive economic zone, represent a "significant escalation" and that he has urged Beijing to back down.

He said the situation had led to a "vigorous communication" during East Asia Summit meetings in Phnom Penh in which both he and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi took part along with the ASEAN nations, Russia and others. Pelosi received a euphoric welcome as the first US House speaker, and highest ranking US official, to visit Taiwan in more than 25 years.

Blinken, who entered the room last, did not even glance at Lavrov as he took his own seat about a half dozen chairs away, or at Wang who was seated farther down the same table as Lavrov. In this image taken from video footage run by China's CCTV, a projectile is launched from an unspecified location in China, Thursday, August 4, 2022.

 

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