(Tokyo) Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi arrived in Japan on Thursday, the final leg of her Asian tour that included a rare visit to Taiwan that drew the ire of China.
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AFP journalists saw M’s plane.me Pelosi land at Yokota Air Base in the western suburbs of Tokyo from South Korea.
Beijing, which considers the autonomous island as part of its territory, has started military exercises on an unprecedented scale to protest against the visit of Mme Pelosi in Taipei.
Chinese ballistic missiles have thus fallen into Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) for the first time, Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said on Thursday.
As soon as the Chinese maneuvers were announced, Tokyo, a close ally of Washington, had expressed its “concern”.
Mme Pelosi, 82, who is visiting Japan for the first time since 2015, is scheduled to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday morning, according to public broadcaster NHK.