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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

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