{"id":54265,"date":"2023-04-12T14:25:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T05:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/12\/taiwan-president-defends-us-trip-as-island-set-to-begin-its-own-military-drills"},"modified":"2023-04-12T20:26:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T11:26:06","slug":"taiwan-president-defends-us-trip-as-island-set-to-begin-its-own-military-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54265","title":{"rendered":"China appears to backtrack over no-fly zone near Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taipei says Beijing has confined flight ban north of island to 27 minutes on Sunday after initial three-day plan<\/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 appeared to backtrack after reports it was planning to declare a three-day no-fly zone in the airspace north of Taiwan next week, reducing the planned duration to just 27 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson from Taiwan\u2019s defence ministry<strong> <\/strong>told a press conference the no-fly zone was about 85 nautical miles north of Taiwan, and they believed it could be related to aerospace activities, perhaps satellite launches.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/12\/taiwan-president-defends-us-trip-as-island-set-to-begin-its-own-military-drills\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taipei says Beijing has confined flight ban north of island to 27 minutes on Sunday after initial three-day planChina-Taiwan tensions explained in 30 secondsChina has appeared to backtrack after reports it was planning to declare a three-day no-fly zon&#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-54265","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\/54265","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=54265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54283,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54265\/revisions\/54283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}