{"id":47062,"date":"2022-08-04T03:29:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T18:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/03\/china-to-begin-series-unprecedented-live-fire-drills-off-coast-of-taiwan"},"modified":"2022-08-04T03:29:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T18:29:29","slug":"china-to-begin-series-of-unprecedented-live-fire-drills-off-taiwan-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47062","title":{"rendered":"China to begin series of unprecedented live-fire drills off Taiwan coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Island accuses Beijing of planning to breach sovereign territory in wake of controversial visit by Nancy Pelosi<\/p>\n<p>China is to begin a series of unprecedented live-fire drills that would effectively blockade the island of Taiwan, just hours after the departure of US House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, whose controversial visit this week has sparked fears of a crisis in the Taiwan strait.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan has characterised the drills, which will last until Sunday afternoon \u2013 and will include missile tests and other \u201cmilitary operations\u201d as close as nine miles to Taiwan\u2019s coastline \u2013 as a violation of international law.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/03\/china-to-begin-series-unprecedented-live-fire-drills-off-coast-of-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Island accuses Beijing of planning to breach sovereign territory in wake of controversial visit by Nancy PelosiChina is to begin a series of unprecedented live-fire drills that would effectively blockade the island of Taiwan, just hours after the depar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2178,"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":[41,50,2185,74,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-nancy-pelosi","category-taiwan","category-us-news","category-us-politics","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\/47062","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\/2178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47063,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47062\/revisions\/47063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}