{"id":37210,"date":"2021-09-22T22:31:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T13:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/22\/second-line-of-defence-taiwans-civilians-train-to-resist-invasion"},"modified":"2021-09-22T22:31:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T13:31:02","slug":"second-line-of-defence-taiwans-civilians-train-to-resist-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37210","title":{"rendered":"Second line of defence: Taiwan\u2019s civilians train to resist invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workshops teach public first aid and prepare them to assist armed forces in event of attack by China<\/p>\n<p>On a quiet workday morning last week, air raid sirens rang out across Taiwan. The eerie wailing horn would be the first warning to the island\u2019s 23.5 million residents of an incoming attack by their neighbour across the Taiwan Strait, the People\u2019s Republic of China.<\/p>\n<p>On the streets of the capital, Taipei, people carried on with their day, just as they did when an earthquake drill on Friday told them to \u201cstop, drop and hide\u201d in mass text alerts, and just as they do when China sends dozens of air force planes screeching towards Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/22\/second-line-of-defence-taiwans-civilians-train-to-resist-invasion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workshops teach public first aid and prepare them to assist armed forces in event of attack by ChinaOn a quiet workday morning last week, air raid sirens rang out across Taiwan. The eerie wailing horn would be the first warning to the island\u2019s 23.5 mil&#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":[41,50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37210","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\/37210","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=37210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37211,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37210\/revisions\/37211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}