Pelosi's visit to tiwan has caused a lot of controversy, both within the administration and amongst experts who follow china and tiwan. She will have left an live fire drills in six zones all around tian effectively sort of encircling it,. Some areas overlapping with what tian claims as its territorial waters. A lot of analysts expect chan response to o unfold over a long period of time. So it's very hard to say when exactly this will blow over.
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