By ratcheting up the pressure on Taiwan, China is following a strategy that it honed in its past confrontations with Japan.
Entrance ceremony for the Japan Coast Guard Academy, April 13, 2022. Credit: Japan Coast Guard via Twitter
Following US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, China fired missiles into six areas surrounding Taiwan and sent fighter jets across the midline of the Taiwan Strait. Some of those missiles landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), threatening fishing boats from the Japanese island of Yonaguni, which is just 68 miles (110 kilometers) from Taiwan.
Although China’s military exercises ended after several days, a new precedent has b
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