By Mukesh 
The United States claims about China exerting military pressure on Taiwan are distorted, and demonstrate its “malicious intentions”, a government spokesperson in Beijing said on Wednesday (April 15, 2026).
China has stepped up military activity around democratically governed Taiwan, which it views as its own territory, holding several rounds of war games, most recently with live-fire drills in late December.
“Certain people on the U.S. side are jumping up and down, continuously rehashing the so-called ‘mainland threat’ or ‘military pressure,’” Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, told reporters.