War Preparations Underway in Taiwan, US Aircraft Carrier Strike Group Deployed

As Sino-American relations are dropping to an all-time low amidst boiling tensions in the Taiwan strait, the USS Ronald Reagan Carrier Group returned to the South China Sea. The move follows a viscerally negative reaction from Beijing about a possible visit to Taiwan by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who would be the highest ranking U.S. official in twenty-five years to make an official visit.
Pelosi was expected to lead a congressional delegation to Taiwan’s capital Taipei during her