— And it begins

🇨🇳❌🇹🇼❗️ — 🇹🇼🪖 Ministry of National Defense of Republic of China (Taiwan) on twitter:
— "ROC Armed Forces are operating as usual and monitor our surroundings in response to irrational activities from PRC, aiming for changing the status quo & destabilizing the region's security.

We seek no escalation, but we don't stand down when it comes to our security and sovereignty"

🇨🇳❌🇹🇼❗️ — 🇨🇳☭ Global Times: PLA to start live fire drills 2 days after Pelosi's visit, leaves time for ship evacuations, airline adjustments

— "Shortly after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan for her provocative visit on Tuesday night, the Xinhua News Agency announced that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) would conduct a series of live fire military drills from Thursday to Saturday in six different areas that encircle the island from all directions.

Some people have been questioning why the PLA decided to kick off the drills two days after her arrival.
A military expert explained that the arrangement shows the PLA's rational and responsible attitude as it leaves time for domestic and foreign civilian ships and airlines to evacuate their ships and adjust their flights.

Zhang Junshe, a senior research fellow at the Naval Research Academy of the People's Liberation Army, told the Global Times on Wednesday that the drills include long-range live-fire shooting and conventional missile test launches."

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🇨🇳❌🇹🇼❗️ — 🇹🇼 Taiwanese Media: About 10 Chinese People's Liberation Army's Navy (PLA-N) ships crossed the Taiwan Strait Median line and remain close in the area from Wednesday night to Thursday Midday

#BREAKING
🇨🇳❌🇹🇼❗️ — 🇫🇷 AFP Journalists report that they are seeing large projectiles being fired by Chinese PLA over the Taiwan Straits!

🇨🇳❌🇹🇼❗️ — Videos published by local netizens on Weibo, the main Mainland China social media, show Ballistic missiles being fired by People's Liberation Army (PLA) from Pingtan islands, 138 km W from 🇹🇼 ROC/Taiwan territory

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🇨🇳❌🇹🇼 — 🇫🇷🌹 French Media, AFP on twitter:
— "Chinese military helicopters fly past Pingtan island, one of mainland China's closest points to Taiwan, in Fujian province on Thursday.

China has begun massive military drills off Taiwan following US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to the self-ruled island"

🔗 AFP News Agency (@AFP)

🇨🇳🚀🇹🇼❗️ — One of the various videos circulating on Weibo, the main Mainland China social media, shows the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) ballistic missiles being launched from Fujian towards the Taiwan Straits

According to some local observers and ROC/Taiwan journalists, the area where the missiles are falling is located a few kilometers north of the coastal waters of Taipei.

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🇨🇳🚀🇹🇼❗️ — 🇹🇼🪖 ROC/Taiwan Ministry of National Defense: The Chinese PLA launched several ballistic missiles around the eastern and southern part of Taiwan.

Parts of the silos fell this morning, it is expected that the rest will collapse within hours.

4 more silos just collapsed.

⋯ Additional footage

🇯🇵🇹🇼❌🇨🇳❗️ — 🇯🇵🪖 Ministry of Defense and Self-Defense Forces of Japan on twitter:
— "It is presumed that the five missiles that fell into Japan's EEZ fell into Japan's EEZ within the training area set to the southwest of Hateruma Island announced by China."