China’s sharper focus on military option for Taiwan raises risks with U.S.

Beijing – As the dust settles from China’s military exercises around Taiwan, the message is clear: the military will uphold China’s claim on the island in a challenge to the United States that will keep tension high and ramp up the risk of confrontation.

China failed to stop U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi from visiting democratically ruled Taiwan last week, a trip that China said destroyed the basis for political trust between the world’s two largest economies.