Taiwan is pushing back on reports that Beijing sent jet fighters across the Taiwan Strait apparently in response to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s controversial visit to the island.
Beijing has promised both a military and political response to the visit Tuesday by Mrs. Pelosi, the highest-ranking American official to travel to the island democracy in a quarter-century. China says Taiwan is part of its sovereign territory and has vowed one day to take control of the island 100 miles off its coast.
“The Taiwan Straits rumors are not true,” Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said Tuesday in a statement.