It was a poke in the eye for Beijing when United States Health Secretary Alex Azar landed in Taiwan last week, the highest-level American official to visit the self-governing island in four decades.
China made known its displeasure by flying fighter jets across the mid-line of the Taiwan Strait into Taiwan's side of the sensitive waterway the following day.
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