{"id":51431,"date":"2022-12-26T13:36:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T04:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/26\/dozens-of-chinese-warplanes-cross-taiwan-median-line"},"modified":"2022-12-26T13:36:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T04:36:06","slug":"dozens-of-chinese-warplanes-cross-taiwan-median-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51431","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of Chinese warplanes cross Taiwan median line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing says drills also involving navy ships are a \u2018firm response\u2019 after US defence spending bill prioritised support for Taiwan<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/china-and-taiwan-whats-behind-the-tensions-in-30-seconds\">China-Taiwan relations: what\u2019s behind the tensions?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seventy-one Chinese air force aircraft including fighter jets and drones entered Taiwan\u2019s air defence identification zone in the past 24 hours, the island\u2019s government said on Monday, the largest reported incursion to date.<\/p>\n<p>The incursion included 43 Chinese aircraft that crossed the Taiwan Strait\u2019s median line, an unofficial buffer between the two sides that lies within the defence zone, Taiwan\u2019s defence ministry said in a report, as Beijing continues military activities close to the island.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/26\/dozens-of-chinese-warplanes-cross-taiwan-median-line\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing says drills also involving navy ships are a \u2018firm response\u2019 after US defence spending bill prioritised support for TaiwanChina-Taiwan relations: what\u2019s behind the tensions?Seventy-one Chinese air force aircraft including fighter jets and drones&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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-51431","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\/51431","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51432,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51431\/revisions\/51432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}