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Taipei (AFP) – Taiwan struck a defiant tone Wednesday as a furious China geared up for military exercises encircling the island in retaliation for Nancy Pelosi’s visit, hours after the senior US politician left. Group of Seven leaders urged Beijing to show restraint, saying there was “no justification” for “aggressive” military drills in the Taiwan Strait. US House Speaker Pelosi left Taiwan Wednesday morning, having defied a series of increasingly stark threats from Beijing, which views the island as its territory and warned it would consider the visit a major provocation. China later announc…