{"id":41974,"date":"2022-02-25T20:55:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T11:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/25\/of-course-i-worry-shockwaves-from-ukraine-reach-taiwan"},"modified":"2022-02-25T20:55:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T11:55:25","slug":"of-course-i-worry-shock-waves-from-ukraine-reach-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41974","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Of course I worry\u2019: shock waves from Ukraine reach Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the threat of invasion from China ever present, people\u2019s fears are playing out in eastern Europe<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/ukraine-live\/latest\">Ukraine invasion: latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/25\/russia-ukraine-invasion-why-invade-attack-what-we-know-so-far\">Day two: what we know so far<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>About 5,000 miles away from the violence in Ukraine, shock waves from Russia\u2019s invasion are being felt in Taiwan. Until recently, Taiwan was considered to be one of the world\u2019s most significant potential flashpoints for a multination war. It was heralded \u2013 albeit with some exaggeration \u2013 as \u201cthe most dangerous place on Earth\u201d, under growing threat of invasion by Xi Jinping\u2019s China, which considers the independently governed democracy to be a Chinese province.<\/p>\n<p>This week its people have watched their fears play out in eastern Europe, as Russian forces \u2013 ordered by Xi\u2019s ally Vladimir Putin \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/24\/airstrikes-dawn-russia-begins-war-aggression-with-ukraine-vladimir-putin\">attacked in the pre-dawn hours of Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/25\/of-course-i-worry-shockwaves-from-ukraine-reach-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the threat of invasion from China ever present, people\u2019s fears are playing out in eastern EuropeUkraine invasion: latest updatesDay two: what we know so farAbout 5,000 miles away from the violence in Ukraine, shock waves from Russia\u2019s invasion are&#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":[41,50,419,74,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-russia","category-taiwan","category-ukraine","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\/41974","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=41974"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42041,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41974\/revisions\/42041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}