{"id":48109,"date":"2022-09-02T14:38:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T05:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/02\/taiwan-tycoon-to-fund-33m-strong-army-of-civilian-warriors-to-defend-against-invasion"},"modified":"2022-09-02T14:38:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T05:38:22","slug":"taiwan-tycoon-to-fund-3-3-million-strong-army-of-civilian-warriors-to-defend-against-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48109","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan tycoon to fund 3.3 million-strong army of \u2018civilian warriors\u2019 to defend against invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Tsao, a microchip entrepreneur, pledges $32m to train and equip civil defence force to combat threat of Chinese attack<\/p>\n<p>A Taiwanese tycoon has announced his plan to train 3.3 million \u201ccivilian warriors\u201d and marksmen to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion, using one billion Taiwan dollars ($32m) of his own money.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement by Robert Tsao, a well-known Taiwanese businessman and founder of United Microelectronics Corp, a major microchip producer, comes amid increasing military activity between Taiwan and China. On Thursday Taiwan\u2019s defence ministry announced its soldiers had shot down a Chinese drone over Taiwan\u2019s Kinmen islands. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/02\/taiwan-tycoon-to-fund-33m-strong-army-of-civilian-warriors-to-defend-against-invasion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Tsao, a microchip entrepreneur, pledges $32m to train and equip civil defence force to combat threat of Chinese attackA Taiwanese tycoon has announced his plan to train 3.3 million \u201ccivilian warriors\u201d and marksmen to defend Taiwan from a Chinese&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48109","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=48109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48110,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48109\/revisions\/48110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}