{"id":47124,"date":"2022-08-05T14:04:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T05:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/05\/china-missile-drills-around-taiwan-a-threat-to-regional-security-says-japan-pm"},"modified":"2022-08-05T14:04:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T05:04:07","slug":"china-missile-drills-around-taiwan-a-threat-to-regional-security-says-japan-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47124","title":{"rendered":"China missile drills around Taiwan a threat to regional security, says Japan PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fumio Kishida welcomes Nancy Pelosi in Tokyo and urges Beijing to halt planned four days of military exercises sparked by US House speaker\u2019s visit<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/aug\/05\/china-taiwan-news-live-fire-military-drills-exercises-us-warns-mistake-could-lead-to-conflict\">China-Taiwan crisis: live updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Japan\u2019s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has condemned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/aug\/05\/china-taiwan-news-live-fire-military-drills-exercises-us-warns-mistake-could-lead-to-conflict\">Chinese military drills<\/a> near Taiwan as a \u201cgrave problem\u201d and a threat to regional peace and security, after five ballistic missiles landed in Japan\u2019s exclusive economic zone (EEZ).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after a meeting with the US House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, in Tokyo on Friday, Kishida said China\u2019s live-fire exercises near the self-governed island must \u201cstop immediately\u201d. Beijing announced four days of drills that are expected to finish on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/05\/china-missile-drills-around-taiwan-a-threat-to-regional-security-says-japan-pm\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fumio Kishida welcomes Nancy Pelosi in Tokyo and urges Beijing to halt planned four days of military exercises sparked by US House speaker\u2019s visitChina-Taiwan crisis: live updatesJapan\u2019s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, has condemned Chinese military dri&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"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":[41,50,88,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-japan","category-taiwan","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\/47124","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\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47125,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47124\/revisions\/47125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}