{"id":47075,"date":"2022-08-04T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T02:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/04\/china-taiwan-tensions-how-worried-should-we-be-about-military-conflict"},"modified":"2022-08-04T11:04:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T02:04:08","slug":"china-taiwan-tensions-how-worried-should-we-be-about-military-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47075","title":{"rendered":"China-Taiwan tensions: how worried should we be about military conflict?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China plans to escalate its military exercises near Taiwan, prompting fears of a fresh crisis in the region<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/aug\/04\/china-expected-to-begin-live-fire-military-exercises-near-taiwan-coast-in-wake-of-pelosi-visit-live\">China live-fire drills near Taiwan: follow live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the wake of US House speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/mood-shifts-in-taiwan-as-nancy-pelosi-visit-raises-fears-of-war\">visit to Taiwan<\/a>, China has revealed plans for unprecedented military exercises near the island, prompting fears of a crisis in the Taiwan Strait.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi visited the self-governing island this week in defiance of a series threats from Beijing, which views Taiwan as a breakaway province, and warned it would consider the visit a major provocation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/04\/china-taiwan-tensions-how-worried-should-we-be-about-military-conflict\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China plans to escalate its military exercises near Taiwan, prompting fears of a fresh crisis in the regionChina live-fire drills near Taiwan: follow live updatesIn the wake of US House speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s visit to Taiwan, China has revealed plans f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3217,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47075","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\/3217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47076,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47075\/revisions\/47076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}