{"id":37725,"date":"2021-10-06T16:12:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T07:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/06\/why-is-china-increasing-its-military-pressure-on-taiwan"},"modified":"2021-10-06T16:12:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T07:12:58","slug":"why-is-china-increasing-its-military-pressure-on-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37725","title":{"rendered":"Why is China increasing its military pressure on Taiwan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As China ramps up its display of power, Taiwan\u2019s leaders vow to do \u2018whatever it takes\u2019 to defend its independence<\/p>\n<p>Last week, China sent about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/04\/taiwan-reports-record-chinese-incursions-into-its-air-defence-zone\">150 warplanes into Taiwan\u2019s air defence identification zone<\/a> (ADIZ), in a massive escalation of its military activity directed towards the island. Over the past two years, the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) has increased its activity, with near-daily sorties into the ADIZ and frequent military drills in nearby maritime areas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/06\/why-is-china-increasing-its-military-pressure-on-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As China ramps up its display of power, Taiwan\u2019s leaders vow to do \u2018whatever it takes\u2019 to defend its independenceLast week, China sent about 150 warplanes into Taiwan\u2019s air defence identification zone (ADIZ), in a massive escalation of its military act&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2626,"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-37725","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\/37725","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\/2626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37726,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37725\/revisions\/37726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}