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During the furor over Nancy Pelosi's incendiary Taiwan visit last week, I was watching an appearance by Antiwar's Dave DeCamp on the show Rising which brought up the under-discussed point that US officials going to Taipei is actually a continuation of a trend that had already been happening under the Trump administration.

DeCamp pointed out that China began regularly flying planes into Taiwan's Air Defense Identification Zone after Trump administration officials made similar visits to Pelosi's.

"That started happening regularly after August 2020 when President Trump sent Alex Azar to Taiwan," DeCamp said. "He was his health secretary. He was the highest-level cabinet official to visit Taiwan since 1979. The following month, in September 2020, they sent Keith Krach. He was the undersecretary for economics in the State Department, and he was the highest-level State Department official to visit Taiwan since 1979. So these are unprecedented steps, and since then we've seen more Chinese military activity in the region."