{"id":48070,"date":"2022-09-01T16:52:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T07:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/01\/taiwan-shoots-down-drone-chinese-coast-first-time"},"modified":"2022-09-01T16:52:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T07:52:21","slug":"taiwan-shoots-down-drone-off-chinese-coast-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48070","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan shoots down drone off Chinese coast for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Action near islet comes after Taipei vowed to take tough measures to deal with increase in such intrusions<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s military has shot down for the first time an unidentified civilian drone that entered its airspace near an islet off the Chinese coast, after the government vowed to take tough measures to deal with an increase in such intrusions.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing, which claims Taiwan as its own against the objections of the Taipei government, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/09\/china-used-drills-to-prepare-for-invasion-taiwan-foreign-minister-says\">held military exercises<\/a> around the island since early last month in reaction to a visit to Taipei by the US House of Representatives speaker, Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/01\/taiwan-shoots-down-drone-chinese-coast-first-time\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Action near islet comes after Taipei vowed to take tough measures to deal with increase in such intrusionsTaiwan\u2019s military has shot down for the first time an unidentified civilian drone that entered its airspace near an islet off the Chinese coast, a&#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-48070","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\/48070","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=48070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48071,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48070\/revisions\/48071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}