Twelve days after US House Speaker Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, another Congressional
delegation of five, led by Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) and including Republican Rep. Aumua
Amata Coleman Radewagen, a delegate from American Samoa, and Democratic House members John Garamendi and Alan Lowenthal from California and Don Beyer from Virginia
arrived in Taipei on August 14. They were scheduled to meet Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen.
Taiwan's Defence Ministry stated that Chinese warplanes have continued crossing the midpoint
of the Taiwan Strait on a daily basis even after the conclusion of the military exercises last
August 10, with at least 10 doing so on August 14. The 10 fighter jets were among 22 Chinese
military aircraft and six naval ships detected in the area around Taiwan by 5 p.m. on August
14. The New York Times (August 14) quoting Bonnie Glaser, Director of the Asia program at
the German Marshall Fund of the United States, said the visit was apparently planned months
ago.
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