{"id":49066,"date":"2022-10-04T16:50:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T07:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/04\/taiwan-military-recruitment-low-birthrate-chinese-invasion-threat"},"modified":"2022-10-04T22:59:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T13:59:33","slug":"taiwans-military-recruitment-pool-shrinking-due-to-low-birthrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49066","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan\u2019s military recruitment pool shrinking due to low birthrate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Number of new conscripts at lowest level in a decade as country tries to build defences amid threat of Chinese invasion<\/p>\n<p>The declining birthrate in Taiwan could cause \u201cmajor challenges\u201d to the island\u2019s military recruitment capabilities, at a time when Taiwan is building its defences to ward off potential Chinese invasion, its government has been told.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/11\/analysis-chinas-ageing-population-predicament-global-implications-east-asia\">Like much of east Asia<\/a>, Taiwan is facing a demographic crisis, with fewer people having children each year as the population ages. The issue has social and economic effects on countries but in Taiwan there is also concern over its impact on military personnel levels.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/04\/taiwan-military-recruitment-low-birthrate-chinese-invasion-threat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number of new conscripts at lowest level in a decade as country tries to build defences amid threat of Chinese invasionThe declining birthrate in Taiwan could cause \u201cmajor challenges\u201d to the island\u2019s military recruitment capabilities, at a time when Ta&#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":[41,50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49066","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\/49066","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=49066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49075,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49066\/revisions\/49075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}