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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is classified as a representative Chinese hardliner in the US.
As a result, China reacted more sensitively to Chairman Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, raising military tensions to the extent of mobilizing not only live ammunition training but also aircraft carriers.
Considering this atmosphere, House Speaker Pelosi chose the route that bypassed the South China Sea and took about two hours to arrive in Taiwan.
Reporter Jang Min-seong will tell you about the tense trip to Taiwan.
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Chairman Pelosi departed from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia at 4:42 pm yesterday (2nd) our time and arrived at Taipei Songshan Airport at 11:45 pm, which took 7 hours.
It took 2 hours longer than the usual 5 hours flight time from Malaysia to Taiwan.
The private plane carrying Chairman Pelosi and his party chose a long route bypassing Indonesia and the Philippines instead of a short straight route through the South China Sea.
It was a deliberate evasion of the South China Sea route claimed by China, and military tensions peaked for seven hours.
The U.S. Navy has deployed four battleships, including the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan, in the Philippine Sea.
Around 8 pm, eight fighters and five aerial tankers took off from the US base in Okinawa, Japan, NHK reported.
Chinese military aircraft flew across the border between China and the Taiwan Strait, and by the time Chairman Pelosi arrived in Taiwan, it was known that 21 Chinese military aircraft had entered the Taiwan Air Defense Identification Zone.
The Chinese state media relayed the location of the private plane carrying Chairman Pelosi and his party in real time, and the site showing the flight tracks in real time had an unusually high access problem as more than 300,000 people simultaneously accessed it.