CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield July 7, 2024
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...
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