{"id":43697,"date":"2022-04-20T18:43:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T09:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/20\/taiwan-news-channel-accidently-airs-false-report-of-chinese-invasion"},"modified":"2022-04-20T18:43:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T09:43:48","slug":"taiwan-news-channel-accidentally-airs-false-report-of-chinese-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43697","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan news channel accidentally airs false report of Chinese invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CTS apologises for panic caused by broadcast of mocked-up captions it says it created for security drills<\/p>\n<p>A Taiwanese news channel has broadcast by mistake a fictional news alert that said Chinese armed forces had launched an invasion, firing missiles at cities and ports surrounding the capital, Taipei.<\/p>\n<p>Several news captions declaring a violent attack by China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army had been mocked up for forthcoming security drills, but were broadcast accidentally to Taiwanese viewers at 7am on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Additional reporting by Chi Hui Lin and Xiaoqian Zhu<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/20\/taiwan-news-channel-accidently-airs-false-report-of-chinese-invasion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CTS apologises for panic caused by broadcast of mocked-up captions it says it created for security drillsA Taiwanese news channel has broadcast by mistake a fictional news alert that said Chinese armed forces had launched an invasion, firing missiles a&#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":[41,50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43697","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=43697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43698,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43697\/revisions\/43698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}