War Fear As Missiles Fired In Taiwan Sea

Fuming China flexes military muscles after Pelosi’s visit

- Chris Hughes

CHINA took tensions with Taiwan to the brink of war yesterday with a huge display of firepower designed to intimidate its tiny neighbour.

The communist giant deployed more than 100 warplanes and fired live missiles into the sea off Taiwan’s coast in its biggest ever military exercise.

China’s chilling muscle-flexing was in revenge for top US politician Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan’s capital Taipei to show solidarity with the isolated island democracy.

Taiwan fired flares to drive off four Chinese drones that flew over nearby islands and 10 warships that approached its coast.

By midday, warships from both sides remained in close proximity.