{"id":49428,"date":"2022-10-18T14:11:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T05:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/18\/chinas-plans-to-annex-taiwan-moving-much-faster-under-xi-says-blinken"},"modified":"2022-10-18T14:11:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T05:11:24","slug":"chinas-plans-to-annex-taiwan-moving-much-faster-under-xi-says-blinken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49428","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s plans to annex Taiwan moving \u2018much faster\u2019 under Xi, says Blinken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comments by US secretary of state come after Xi told Communist party Congress Taiwan is core to plans for China\u2019s \u2018rejuvenation\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/14\/chinas-communist-party-congress-everything-you-need-to-know\">China\u2019s party Congress: everything you need to know<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China\u2019s government is pursuing its plans to annex Taiwan on a \u201cmuch faster timeline\u201d under Xi Jinping, the US secretary of state has said, reiterating warnings of global economic disruption if Taiwan was taken over.<\/p>\n<p>The comments by Antony Blinken come as China\u2019s ruling Communist party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/16\/xi-jinping-vision-china-next-five-years-key-takeaways-from-speech\">meet for their twice-a-decade congress<\/a>, the most important meeting of its political cycle. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/16\/xi-jinping-speech-opens-china-communist-party-congress\">In a major speech<\/a> opening the conclaves on Sunday, Xi made clear that his plans for Taiwan remain core to his plans of China\u2019s \u201crejuvenation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/18\/chinas-plans-to-annex-taiwan-moving-much-faster-under-xi-says-blinken\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments by US secretary of state come after Xi told Communist party Congress Taiwan is core to plans for China\u2019s \u2018rejuvenation\u2019China\u2019s party Congress: everything you need to knowChina\u2019s government is pursuing its plans to annex Taiwan on a \u201cmuch faste&#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":[2003,41,50,74,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antony-blinken","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-us-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49428","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=49428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49429,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49428\/revisions\/49429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}