{"id":31384,"date":"2021-04-25T11:51:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T02:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/25\/australian-defence-minister-says-conflict-over-taiwan-involving-china-should-not-be-discounted"},"modified":"2021-04-25T11:51:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T02:51:11","slug":"australian-defence-minister-says-conflict-over-taiwan-involving-china-should-not-be-discounted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31384","title":{"rendered":"Australian defence minister says conflict over Taiwan involving China \u2018should not be discounted\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Dutton says Australia is focused on maintaining good relations with Beijing but China has been \u2018very clear\u2019 about its plans for reunification <\/p>\n<p>The Australian defence minister, Peter Dutton, has said a conflict involving China over Taiwan cannot be discounted but he insists the government\u2019s focus remains on having \u201cgood relations\u201d with Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Dutton was on Sunday asked about the prospect of a \u201cbattle over Taiwan\u201d following remarks from the former defence minister, Christopher Pyne, and the ex-prime minister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/inquirer\/we-have-to-face-up-to-the-reality-of-the-threat-china-poses-to-democracy\/news-story\/d0431814a20525f346ca54f44c25a83b\">Tony Abbott<\/a>, about China\u2019s expansionist plans in the region.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/25\/australian-defence-minister-says-conflict-over-taiwan-involving-china-should-not-be-discounted\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Dutton says Australia is focused on maintaining good relations with Beijing but China has been \u2018very clear\u2019 about its plans for reunification The Australian defence minister, Peter Dutton, has said a conflict involving China over Taiwan cannot be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":699,"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":[43,1585,324,50,679,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-australian-military","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-peter-dutton","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31384","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\/699"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31385,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31384\/revisions\/31385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}