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Added on the 06/01/2021 19:22:07 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
First voters line up on "Super Tuesday" for the presidential primaries to cast their ballots at a polling station in Houston, Texas. IMAGES
The United States says that China's launch of nine ballistic missiles around Taiwan is an overraction to the visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan. "China has chosen to overreact and use the speaker's visit as a pretext to increase provocative military activity in and around the Taiwan Strait," says US National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby. SOUNDBITE
US Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi arrives in Japan for the final stop on her Asian tour, following a visit to Taiwan that incensed China. IMAGES
US Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen meet at the Presidential Palace in Taipei. Pelosi's visit defied a string of increasingly stark warnings and threats from China, which views Taiwan as its territory and had warned it would consider her visit a major provocation. IMAGES
A convoy carrying US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrives at a hotel in Taipei upon her landing in Taiwan, despite a warning from China, as tensions between the two superpowers continue to soar. IMAGES
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