{"id":41155,"date":"2022-01-29T02:15:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T17:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/28\/china-ambassador-us-warns-possible-military-conflict-taiwan"},"modified":"2022-01-29T02:15:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T17:15:16","slug":"chinas-ambassador-to-us-warns-of-possible-military-conflict-over-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41155","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s ambassador to US warns of possible military conflict over Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unusually explicit reference to prospect of war comes as tensions over island\u2019s future continue to rise<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s ambassador to the US has said the two countries could face a \u201cmilitary conflict\u201d over the future of Taiwan, in an unusually explicit reference to the prospect of war. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Taiwan issue is the biggest tinderbox between China and the United States,\u201d Qin Gang told the US public broadcaster National Public Radio (NPR), on Friday. \u201cIf the Taiwanese authorities, emboldened by the United States, keep going down the road for independence, it most likely will involve China and the United States, the two big countries, in the military conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/28\/china-ambassador-us-warns-possible-military-conflict-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unusually explicit reference to prospect of war comes as tensions over island\u2019s future continue to riseChina\u2019s ambassador to the US has said the two countries could face a \u201cmilitary conflict\u201d over the future of Taiwan, in an unusually explicit referenc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"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":[41,50,74,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/41155","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\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41156,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41155\/revisions\/41156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}