{"id":47291,"date":"2022-08-10T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T00:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/10\/china-taiwan-military-drills-the-new-normal-analysts-say"},"modified":"2022-08-10T09:30:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T00:30:13","slug":"this-is-about-striking-fear-chinas-taiwan-drills-the-new-normal-analysts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47291","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This is about striking fear\u2019: China\u2019s Taiwan drills the new normal, analysts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Show of force by China has eased off, but observers say it will strike \u2018fear and a sense of inevitability in Taiwanese hearts and minds\u2019<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s military drills targeting Taiwan have set a new normal, and are likely to \u201cregularise\u201d similar armed exercises off the coast or even more aggressive action much closer to the island, analysts have said.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/03\/china-to-begin-series-unprecedented-live-fire-drills-off-coast-of-taiwan\">conducting live-fire exercises<\/a> and other drills in the seas around Taiwan\u2019s main island for almost a week, in a purported response to the controversial visit to Taipei by the US House speaker, Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/10\/china-taiwan-military-drills-the-new-normal-analysts-say\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Show of force by China has eased off, but observers say it will strike \u2018fear and a sense of inevitability in Taiwanese hearts and minds\u2019China\u2019s military drills targeting Taiwan have set a new normal, and are likely to \u201cregularise\u201d similar armed exercis&#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":[41,50,2185,74,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-nancy-pelosi","category-taiwan","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47291","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=47291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47292,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47291\/revisions\/47292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}