{"id":30103,"date":"2021-03-24T02:27:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T17:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/23\/taiwan-china-threat-admiral-john-aquilino"},"modified":"2021-03-24T02:27:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T17:27:33","slug":"china-threat-to-invade-taiwan-is-closer-than-most-think-says-us-admiral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30103","title":{"rendered":"China threat to invade Taiwan is &#8216;closer than most think&#8217;, says US admiral"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>China considers recovering control of Taiwan its \u2018No 1 priority\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Adm John Aquilino is nominated to head Indo-Pacific Command<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Chinese threat to invade <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/taiwan\">Taiwan<\/a> is serious and more imminent than many understand, the US admiral chosen to lead the Pentagon\u2019s Indo-Pacific region has warned.<\/p>\n<p>China considers recovering control over Taiwan its \u201cNo 1 priority\u201d, Adm John Aquilino, nominated to become commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command, told the Senate armed services committee on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/23\/taiwan-china-threat-admiral-john-aquilino\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China considers recovering control of Taiwan its \u2018No 1 priority\u2019Adm John Aquilino is nominated to head Indo-Pacific CommandThe Chinese threat to invade Taiwan is serious and more imminent than many understand, the US admiral chosen to lead the Pentagon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1256,"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":[41,50,74,473,758,47,2013,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-us-military","category-us-national-security","category-us-news","category-us-senate","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\/30103","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\/1256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30131,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30103\/revisions\/30131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}