{"id":51075,"date":"2022-12-12T09:52:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T00:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/12\/china-preparing-fresh-pretext-to-practise-future-attacks-says-taiwan-foreign-minister"},"modified":"2022-12-12T09:52:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T00:52:59","slug":"china-preparing-fresh-pretext-to-practise-future-attacks-says-taiwan-foreign-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51075","title":{"rendered":"China preparing fresh pretext to practise future attacks, says Taiwan foreign minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Wu says that communication with China has become more difficult after a purge of some factions within the Communist party<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s government believes China is preparing to find another \u201cpretext for practising their future attack\u201d on the island, its foreign minister has said, after a record-breaking year of military threats and incursions.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Wu also suggested cross-strait communications may diminish even further now that Xi Jinping has secured his third term, with last month\u2019s extraordinary political purges of rival Communist party members severing the few unofficial ties remaining.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/12\/china-preparing-fresh-pretext-to-practise-future-attacks-says-taiwan-foreign-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Wu says that communication with China has become more difficult after a purge of some factions within the Communist partyTaiwan\u2019s government believes China is preparing to find another \u201cpretext for practising their future attack\u201d on the island, &#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":[41,50,2185,74,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-nancy-pelosi","category-taiwan","category-us-news","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\/51075","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=51075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51076,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51075\/revisions\/51076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}