{"id":17554,"date":"2020-04-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/26\/hong-kong-arrests-and-taiwan-flybys-chinas-advances-its-interests-during-covid-19-crisis"},"modified":"2020-04-26T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T23:00:00","slug":"hong-kong-arrests-and-taiwan-flybys-chinas-advances-its-interests-during-covid-19-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17554","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong arrests and Taiwan flybys: China&#8217;s advances its interests during Covid-19 crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing has drawn accusations it is using the distraction of the coronavirus pandemic to advance regional interests. Here are some examples<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China has been accused of using the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to take some bold and provocative actions, including expansions in the South China Sea, crackdowns on activists in Hong Kong and further detention of activists in the mainland. Some analysts have suggested Beijing is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-security\/china-rattles-sabres-as-world-battles-coronavirus-pandemic-idUSKBN2230GC\">sending a message that China\u2019s aggressive foreign policy is still business as usual<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/warontherocks.com\/2020\/04\/same-as-it-ever-was-chinas-pandemic-opportunism-on-its-periphery\/\">testing its adversaries for weaknesses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/26\/hong-kong-arrests-and-taiwan-flybys-chinas-advances-its-interests-during-covid-19-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing has drawn accusations it is using the distraction of the coronavirus pandemic to advance regional interests. Here are some examplesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChina has been accused of using the coronavirus pande&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1069,48,53,535,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","category-south-china-sea","category-taiwan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17568,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17554\/revisions\/17568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}