{"id":47265,"date":"2022-08-09T15:02:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T06:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/09\/china-used-drills-to-prepare-for-invasion-taiwan-foreign-minister-says"},"modified":"2022-08-09T21:26:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T12:26:53","slug":"china-used-drills-to-prepare-for-invasion-taiwan-foreign-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47265","title":{"rendered":"China used drills to prepare for invasion, Taiwan foreign minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions high as Taiwan begins live-fire drills and China continues military exercises it started after US speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taipei last week<\/p>\n<p>China used its military drills last week to prepare for an invasion of Taiwan, and its anger over US speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s visit was just an excuse, Taiwan\u2019s foreign minister has said.<\/p>\n<p>The minister, Joseph Wu, addressed the media on Tuesday morning, as China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/08\/entirely-provoked-china-defends-calling-off-us-military-talks-after-nancy-pelosis-taiwan-visit\">continued with military exercises<\/a> it began last week, and Taiwan started its own live-fire drills. Wu accused China of \u201cgross violations of international law\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/09\/china-used-drills-to-prepare-for-invasion-taiwan-foreign-minister-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions high as Taiwan begins live-fire drills and China continues military exercises it started after US speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taipei last weekChina used its military drills last week to prepare for an invasion of Taiwan, and its anger over US&#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":[41,50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/47265","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=47265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47276,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47265\/revisions\/47276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}