{"id":33548,"date":"2021-06-29T22:12:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T13:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/29\/china-blasts-japanese-ministers-sinister-remarks-about-taiwan"},"modified":"2021-06-29T22:12:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T13:12:37","slug":"china-blasts-japanese-ministers-sinister-remarks-about-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33548","title":{"rendered":"China blasts Japanese minister\u2019s \u2018sinister\u2019 remarks about Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing lodges diplomatic protest with Japan after defence minister calls island a \u2018democratic country\u2019<\/p>\n<p>China and Japan are once again embroiled in a diplomatic row over Taiwan, in the latest example of Beijing\u2019s extreme sensitivity over the status of the self-ruled island and Tokyo\u2019s changing attitude towards Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the US conservative thinktank Hudson Institute on Monday, Japan\u2019s state minister of defence, Yasuhide Nakayama, spoke of a growing threat posed by Chinese and Russian collaboration, and said it was necessary to \u201cwake up\u201d to Beijing\u2019s pressure on Taiwan and protect the island \u201cas a democratic country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/29\/china-blasts-japanese-ministers-sinister-remarks-about-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing lodges diplomatic protest with Japan after defence minister calls island a \u2018democratic country\u2019China and Japan are once again embroiled in a diplomatic row over Taiwan, in the latest example of Beijing\u2019s extreme sensitivity over the status of t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"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":[41,50,88,419,74,818,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-japan","category-russia","category-taiwan","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33548","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\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33549,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33548\/revisions\/33549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}