Beijing is using war games and military and diplomatic responses to warn the United States and its allies against closer ties with Taiwan , but has managed to do so without triggering a full-blown conflict, Chinese observers noted. “US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit [last week] pushed China to kick off a string of counter-attacks and measures against the US and Taiwan, which are all comprehensive and deliberate moves to prevent the US from driving their Taiwan policy to the brink of ‘a Ukraine war’,” Wu Xinbo, dean of the Institute of International Studies at Shanghai’s Fudan University, said….