{"id":54163,"date":"2023-04-08T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T03:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/08\/china-to-hold-military-drills-around-taiwan-after-us-speaker-meeting"},"modified":"2023-04-08T12:00:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T03:00:53","slug":"china-to-hold-military-drills-around-taiwan-after-us-speaker-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54163","title":{"rendered":"China to hold military drills around Taiwan after US speaker meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Combat readiness\u2019 exercises come after Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen met US house speaker Kevin McCarthy this week, angering Beijing<\/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 tensions explained in 30 seconds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China\u2019s military said on Saturday it had begun three days of drills around Taiwan, a day after the island\u2019s president Tsai Ing-wen returned from a trip to the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/05\/taiwan-president-us-house-speaker-kevin-mccarthy\">Tsai met the US House speaker, Kevin McCarthy<\/a>, while in Los Angeles in Wednesday, angering Beijing, which views Taiwan as its own territory.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/08\/china-to-hold-military-drills-around-taiwan-after-us-speaker-meeting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Combat readiness\u2019 exercises come after Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen met US house speaker Kevin McCarthy this week, angering BeijingChina-Taiwan tensions explained in 30 secondsChina\u2019s military said on Saturday it had begun three days of drills around&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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-54163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/54163","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54167,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54163\/revisions\/54167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}