{"id":37715,"date":"2021-10-06T12:31:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T03:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/06\/biden-says-he-and-chinas-xi-have-agreed-to-abide-by-taiwan-agreement"},"modified":"2021-10-07T02:20:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T17:20:52","slug":"china-could-mount-full-scale-invasion-of-taiwan-by-2025-defence-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37715","title":{"rendered":"China could mount full scale invasion of Taiwan by 2025, island\u2019s defence minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comments come as Biden and Xi agree to stick to Taiwan agreements amid rising tension in the Indo-Pacific<\/p>\n<p>China will be capable of mounting a full-scale invasion of Taiwan by 2025, the island\u2019s defence minister has said, describing current tensions as the worst in 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the China Times on Wednesday, Chiu Kuo-cheng said China was capable now, but would be completely prepared to launch an invasion in three years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/06\/biden-says-he-and-chinas-xi-have-agreed-to-abide-by-taiwan-agreement\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments come as Biden and Xi agree to stick to Taiwan agreements amid rising tension in the Indo-PacificChina will be capable of mounting a full-scale invasion of Taiwan by 2025, the island\u2019s defence minister has said, describing current tensions as t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1648,"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":[41,50,74,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/37715","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\/1648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37715"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37744,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37715\/revisions\/37744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}