{"id":38000,"date":"2021-10-15T00:26:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T15:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/oct\/14\/why-are-there-fears-china-and-taiwan-could-go-to-war-video"},"modified":"2021-10-15T00:26:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T15:26:15","slug":"why-are-there-fears-china-and-taiwan-could-go-to-war-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38000","title":{"rendered":"Why are there fears China and Taiwan could go to war?\u00a0\u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dramatic rise in the number of aerial sorties over the sea separating the Chinese mainland from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/taiwan\">Taiwan<\/a>&nbsp;has served as a reminder that the strait has the potential to be one of the most dangerous places on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/oct\/05\/australia-warns-china-against-threat-or-use-of-force-following-taiwan-air-incursions\">reported 149 incursions<\/a> in four days by People\u2019s Liberation Army planes into Taiwan&#8217;s air defence zone have left the de-facto independent island on high alert as they warned that China could be capable of invading by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>As global leaders keep a close eye on the worsening relations in the region, Guardian correspondent Helen Davidson explains why and how tensions could escalate into war<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/oct\/05\/taiwan-and-china-line-that-biden-must-tread-is-finer-than-ever-analysis\">&nbsp;Taiwan and China: line that Biden must tread is finer than ever<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/oct\/14\/why-are-there-fears-china-and-taiwan-could-go-to-war-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dramatic rise in the number of aerial sorties over the sea separating the Chinese mainland from Taiwan&nbsp;has served as a reminder that the strait has the potential to be one of the most dangerous places on Earth.A reported 149 incursions in four d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1507,"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-38000","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\/38000","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\/1507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38019,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38000\/revisions\/38019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}