{"id":46614,"date":"2022-07-21T09:24:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T00:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/21\/ukraine-war-forcing-china-to-rethink-how-and-when-it-may-invade-taiwan-cia-chief-says"},"modified":"2022-07-21T11:56:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T02:56:42","slug":"ukraine-war-forcing-china-to-rethink-how-and-when-it-may-invade-taiwan-cia-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46614","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war forcing China to rethink \u2018how and when\u2019 it may invade Taiwan, CIA chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Burns says China \u2018unsettled\u2019 by Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine and it may influence decisions on the possible use of force against Taiwan<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s experience in Ukraine is affecting China\u2019s calculations on how and when it may decide to invade Taiwan, the head of the CIA said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing at the Aspen Security Forum, Central Intelligence Agency director Bill Burns played down speculation that Chinese president Xi Jinping could move on Taiwan after a key Communist party meeting later this year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/21\/ukraine-war-forcing-china-to-rethink-how-and-when-it-may-invade-taiwan-cia-chief-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Burns says China \u2018unsettled\u2019 by Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine and it may influence decisions on the possible use of force against TaiwanRussia\u2019s experience in Ukraine is affecting China\u2019s calculations on how and when it may decide to invade Taiwan, the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[50,74,930,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-taiwan","category-ukraine","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46614","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46629,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46614\/revisions\/46629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}