{"id":33817,"date":"2021-07-07T18:12:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T09:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/07\/us-official-warns-china-against-catastrophic-move-on-taiwan"},"modified":"2021-07-07T18:12:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T09:12:29","slug":"us-official-warns-china-against-catastrophic-move-on-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33817","title":{"rendered":"US official warns China against \u2018catastrophic\u2019 move on Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt Campbell says Beijing assessing world\u2019s response to Hong Kong crackdown to understand potential reaction on Taiwan<\/p>\n<p>A senior US official has warned China not to seek emboldenment from its Hong Kong crackdown to move against Taiwan, as Japan\u2019s deputy leader said it would defend Taiwan against an attack.<\/p>\n<p>Kurt Campbell, coordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs on the US national security council, told a forum on Tuesday the US had tried to send a \u201cclear message of deterrence across the Taiwan Strait\u201d and any attempt by China to move on Taiwan would be \u201ccatastrophic\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/07\/us-official-warns-china-against-catastrophic-move-on-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt Campbell says Beijing assessing world\u2019s response to Hong Kong crackdown to understand potential reaction on TaiwanA senior US official has warned China not to seek emboldenment from its Hong Kong crackdown to move against Taiwan, as Japan\u2019s deputy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,48,88,74,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-japan","category-taiwan","category-us-news","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\/33817","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33818,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33817\/revisions\/33818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}