{"id":20622,"date":"2020-07-16T16:46:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T07:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/16\/taiwan-thwarts-chinese-invasion-live-fire-drill-war-games"},"modified":"2020-07-16T16:46:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T07:46:57","slug":"taiwan-thwarts-chinese-invasion-in-five-day-live-fire-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20622","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan thwarts Chinese &#8216;invasion&#8217; in five-day live-fire drill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Troops deploy fighter jets and warships in biggest annual war games as tensions rise<\/p>\n<p>Taiwanese soldiers have fought off simulated coastal assaults from China during their biggest annual live-fire exercises of the year, as Beijing ramps up military pressure on the island.<\/p>\n<p>The five-day drill, which began on Monday, tests how democratic Taiwan\u2019s armed forces would repel an invasion from its neighbour.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/16\/taiwan-thwarts-chinese-invasion-live-fire-drill-war-games\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troops deploy fighter jets and warships in biggest annual war games as tensions riseTaiwanese soldiers have fought off simulated coastal assaults from China during their biggest annual live-fire exercises of the year, as Beijing ramps up military press&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20622","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20623,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20622\/revisions\/20623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}