What is the real significance of China's military exercises around Taiwan?

Was China's unprecedented military exercise around the island just their 'tough military response' to US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan? Or China got the opportunity to spread a stronger influence on Taiwan in a strange situation?

What is the significance of China's response to Taiwan? Two BBC correspondents analyzed it:


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The high-ranking hardliners of China's ruling Communist Party are likely pleased with the situation created by Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan.

The BBC thinks Pelosi has actually opened a window for them to increase pressure on Taiwan and they are using it.

China's military exercises around Taiwan include 'live-fire' drills. China fired several missiles over Taiwan in the exercise.

Through this, the pot has been prepared to create 'acceptability' of China's military measures around Taiwan one after the other.

A BBC correspondent said the 'live-fire' drills that China had carried out in the exercise, including firing missiles over Taiwan, had now gained 'acceptability'. It's not that the international community has allowed them to do that, but China has already done it and they have not faced any accountability for it.

In this exercise, China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has flown warplanes very close and in large numbers around the Taiwan Strait. It is now considered the 'new frontier'.

The number of people in China who believe that the Chinese government's policy of annexing Taiwan to the Chinese mainland, even if it is forced one day if necessary, is now much more realistic. Those who believe in this principle see it as their victory.

Discussions on any other strategy to re-integrate Taiwan into China by any other peaceful means have therefore ceased for the time being.

Not only Taiwan, but through this exercise, China has also been able to show its military power to neighboring Southeast Asian countries competing for the possession of the South China Sea. They showed how unstoppable the People's Liberation Army had become in military power.