{"id":54253,"date":"2023-04-11T23:04:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T14:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/11\/china-drills-taiwan-war-like-escalation"},"modified":"2023-04-11T23:04:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T14:04:40","slug":"chinas-drills-near-taiwan-a-war-like-escalation-from-exercises-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54253","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s drills near Taiwan a \u2018war-like\u2019 escalation from exercises last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biggest show of force since August was more targeted and showed intent to annex island, say analysts<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s recent military drills near Taiwan were a substantive and \u201cwar-like\u201d escalation on those conducted last August despite not including any missile launches, some analysts have said.<\/p>\n<p>The drills were launched in retaliation to Taiwan\u2019s president, Tsai Ing-wen, traveling to the US and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/07\/taiwan-president-tsai-ing-wen-meeting-us-speaker-divides-opinion\">meeting the US house speaker, Kevin McCarthy<\/a>. Beijing, which claims Taiwan as a province despite that being rejected by its government and people, declared the meeting a provocation by Taiwan \u201cseparatists\u201d, enabled by the US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/11\/china-drills-taiwan-war-like-escalation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biggest show of force since August was more targeted and showed intent to annex island, say analystsChina\u2019s recent military drills near Taiwan were a substantive and \u201cwar-like\u201d escalation on those conducted last August despite not including any missile&#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":[41,50,74,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/54253","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=54253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54254,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54253\/revisions\/54254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}