{"id":48141,"date":"2022-09-03T12:30:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T03:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/03\/us-announces-11bn-arms-sale-to-taiwan-angering-china"},"modified":"2022-09-03T12:30:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T03:30:29","slug":"us-announces-1-1bn-arms-sale-to-taiwan-angering-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48141","title":{"rendered":"US announces $1.1bn arms sale to Taiwan, angering China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boost to Taiwanese air defences forms biggest part of deal amid heightened tensions after Beijing\u2019s enhanced military drills around island<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has announced a $1.1bn arms sale to Taiwan as US-China tensions escalate over its status.<\/p>\n<p>The sale included $355m for Harpoon air-to-sea missiles and $85m for Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, the state department said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/03\/us-announces-11bn-arms-sale-to-taiwan-angering-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boost to Taiwanese air defences forms biggest part of deal amid heightened tensions after Beijing\u2019s enhanced military drills around islandThe Biden administration has announced a $1.1bn arms sale to Taiwan as US-China tensions escalate over its status&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[41,50,74,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48141","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48142,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48141\/revisions\/48142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}