{"id":46960,"date":"2022-08-02T14:17:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T05:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/taiwan-and-china-step-up-military-rhetoric-as-expected-pelosi-visit-looms"},"modified":"2022-08-02T19:20:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T10:20:10","slug":"taiwan-and-china-step-up-military-rhetoric-as-expected-pelosi-visit-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46960","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan and China step up military rhetoric as expected Pelosi visit looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US House speaker expected to arrive in Taiwan on Tuesday in visit likely to increase tensions between Beijing and Washington<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s defence ministry has warned it would dispatch forces appropriately in reaction to \u201cenemy threats\u201d, as China stepped up its military rhetoric<strong> <\/strong>on the day of a highly controversial expected visit to Taipei by the US speaker, Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Tuesday, the defence ministry said it had a full grasp of military activity near Taiwan and the \u201cdetermination, ability and confidence\u201d to ensure Taiwan\u2019s national security. It added that it had made various unspecified plans for an emergency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/taiwan-and-china-step-up-military-rhetoric-as-expected-pelosi-visit-looms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US House speaker expected to arrive in Taiwan on Tuesday in visit likely to increase tensions between Beijing and WashingtonTaiwan\u2019s defence ministry has warned it would dispatch forces appropriately in reaction to \u201cenemy threats\u201d, as China stepped up &#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":[41,50,74,45,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/46960","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=46960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47002,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46960\/revisions\/47002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}