cnn s blake is in taipei. blake, let s start with you. how much of a surprise was this, is this congressional visit? well, alex, look, these kinds of visits happen from time to time. and we don t often hear about them until after the arrival, and in this case, while taiwan s ministry of foreign affairs say the visit was aannounced, it s the timing that s perhaps the biggest surprise, especially after china reacted so strongly against speaker pelosi s visit. that reaction involved nearly a week of live fire drills surrounding taiwan with war planes and military vessels and missiles that flew over the self-governed island for the first time. this is the second time this month a surprise delegation has made this trip to taiwan here. two weeks ago, house speaker nancy pelosi. this time, a delegation led by ed markey during their two day visit, taiwan s foreign ministry says the group of u.s. lawmakers is going to meet with the democratic island s president, foreign minister, an
pelosi s visit to taiwan. man, did that anger china and seeing the self-governing independent democratic island nation as its own territory. and the response beijing launched military drills in the taiwan strait and they will have more drills coming up. but the defiance of american officials against china demonstrating yet again this country s commitment to democracy and the government in they taipei. alexandria hoff. alex: although china announced more drills, china show of force hasn t let up since exercise of force. china launched 25 fighter jets per day for two weeks following nancy pelosi s visit. part of this delegation, democrat senator ed marky joined by house democrat john geramendi and represent don beyer by virginia and delegate from american samoa, they reported landed 7:00 p.m. local time today. taiwan s minister foreign affairs accompanied photos, quote, we thank the light-minded u.s. lawmakers for support. lawmakers have visited taiwan in recent history without
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