China is stepping up a campaign to coerce and intimidate Taiwan, sending batches of spy balloons over the self-governing island nation this month before and after a consequential presidential election.
The Hill’s Brad Dress reports the spy balloons flew into Taiwanese airspace almost daily around Taiwan’s Jan. 13 presidential elections, which resulted in a pro-U.S. president in Taipei. The election — and China’s early steps to intimidate Taiwan after it — are spurring concerns that Beijing is inching closer to taking more aggressive action against the island, which it considers historically part of the mainland.
