{"id":54183,"date":"2023-04-09T15:21:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T06:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/09\/taiwan-monitors-for-missiles-as-china-begins-second-day-of-military-drills"},"modified":"2023-04-09T15:21:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T06:21:35","slug":"china-sends-dozens-of-warplanes-towards-taiwan-as-us-urges-restraint-amid-military-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54183","title":{"rendered":"China sends dozens of warplanes towards Taiwan as US urges restraint amid military drills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Show of force comes after Taiwanese president Tsai met US House speaker McCarthy this week, despite Beijing warning against it<\/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 has sent dozens of warplanes towards Taiwan for a second day of military drills, launched in retaliation to the island\u2019s president, Tsai Ing-wen, meeting the US House Speaker during a brief visit to the US.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s defence ministry said it was monitoring the movements of China\u2019s missile forces, as the US said it too was on alert.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/09\/taiwan-monitors-for-missiles-as-china-begins-second-day-of-military-drills\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Show of force comes after Taiwanese president Tsai met US House speaker McCarthy this week, despite Beijing warning against itChina-Taiwan tensions explained in 30 secondsChina has sent dozens of warplanes towards Taiwan for a second day of military dr&#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-54183","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\/54183","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=54183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54198,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54183\/revisions\/54198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}