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07:23 : Chinese maneuvers have resumed around Taiwan. “Multiple groups of Chinese warplanes and warships” have crossed the median line of the strait which separates the island from China since 11 a.m. (5 a.m. in Paris), says the Taiwanese Ministry of Defense.
07:31 : Last night, the White House had already reacted to the Chinese exercises, believing that Beijing had “chose to overreact” to Nancy Pelosi’s visit. She announced the postponement of an intercontinental ballistic missile launch to avoid fueling tensions. And decided, on the other hand, that the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reaganwhich is currently in the Philippine Sea, would remain “a bit longer than expected” in the area for “monitor the situation”.
07:31 : The world recounts this morning the embarrassment of Japan but also of South Korea, the two countries visited by Nancy Pelosi since her visit to Taiwan, about this visit which has rekindled tensions. South Korean President Yoon Seok-youl, however in favor of a close alliance with Washington, chose not to meet her, preferring a telephone conversation: “It would have been embarrassing for Mr. Yoon to meet Nancy Pelosi at a time when the United States and China are playing one-upmanship”explained his party.
07:32 : Chinese military exercises put Japan, some of whose islands are a hundred kilometers from Taiwan, in a delicate situation – yesterday, five of the missiles fired by China fell in the waters of its exclusive economic zone. These shots are “a serious problem that affects our national security and that of our citizens”, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said last night after meeting with Nancy Pelosi. He called to “immediate stop” exercises, supposed to last until Sunday.
07:33 : “They won’t isolate Taiwan by preventing us from going there. We had high-level visits, from senators in the spring, in a bi-partisan way…and we won’t allow them to isolate Taiwan. “
From Tokyo, where she is for the last leg of her Asian tour, Nancy Pelosi reacted last night to the Chinese military maneuvers that followed her visit to Taiwan. She ensures that her visit “was not meant to change the status quo here in Asia, to change the status quo in Taiwan”.
06:11 : Let’s start by recalling the main news of the last few hours:
The heat wave continues today in the Southeast, but temperatures should drop during the day. Météo France lifted orange vigilance in 15 of the 26 departments that remained concerned.
China is continuing its military maneuvers around Taiwan, after firing missiles yesterday, some of which fell into Japanese waters. A response to the visit of the American Nancy Pelosi to this territory claimed by Beijing.
Parliament has definitively adopted the second part of measures on purchasing power, which provides in particular for the revaluation of the index point of civil servants, the redemption of RTT not taken or the end of the fee.