{"id":47990,"date":"2022-08-31T00:16:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/30\/taiwan-fires-warning-shots-at-chinese-drone"},"modified":"2022-08-31T00:16:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:16:07","slug":"taiwan-fires-warning-shots-at-chinese-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47990","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan fires warning shots at Chinese drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Island country\u2019s president says Taiwan could take \u2018strong countermeasures\u2019 if necessary<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan fired warning shots at a Chinese drone that buzzed an offshore islet shortly after President Tsai Ing-wen said she had ordered Taiwan\u2019s military to take \u201cstrong countermeasures\u201d against what she termed Chinese provocations.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first time warning shots have been fired in such an incident amid a period of heightened tension between China and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/taiwan\">Taiwan<\/a>, which Beijing views as its own territory. Taiwan strongly disputes China\u2019s sovereignty claims.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/30\/taiwan-fires-warning-shots-at-chinese-drone\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Island country\u2019s president says Taiwan could take \u2018strong countermeasures\u2019 if necessaryTaiwan fired warning shots at a Chinese drone that buzzed an offshore islet shortly after President Tsai Ing-wen said she had ordered Taiwan\u2019s military to take \u201cstro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2037,"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-47990","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\/47990","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\/2037"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47991,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47990\/revisions\/47991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}