{"id":54337,"date":"2023-04-14T19:34:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T10:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/14\/taiwan-warns-local-media-against-spreading-false-news-from-china"},"modified":"2023-04-14T19:34:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T10:34:38","slug":"taiwan-warns-local-media-against-spreading-false-news-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54337","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan warns local media against spreading false news from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defence ministry says it cannot rule out \u2018cognitive warfare tactics\u2019 after disinformation during Chinese drills<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s defence ministry has raised the alarm about disinformation attacks during the recent Chinese military drills and alerted local media to the dangers of helping spread disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>Last week Beijing launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/11\/china-drills-taiwan-war-like-escalation\">three days of military exercises near Taiwan<\/a>, in retaliation for President Tsai Ing-wen\u2019s meeting with the US House speaker, Kevin McCarthy, in the US. Taiwan\u2019s military and civilian analysts confirmed that Taiwan was also targeted with information warfare. \u201cLast year\u2019s military exercise and this year\u2019s military exercise both used a combination of information and military actions to affect our morale,\u201d a defence spokesperson said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/14\/taiwan-warns-local-media-against-spreading-false-news-from-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence ministry says it cannot rule out \u2018cognitive warfare tactics\u2019 after disinformation during Chinese drillsTaiwan\u2019s defence ministry has raised the alarm about disinformation attacks during the recent Chinese military drills and alerted local media&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"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":[41,50,351,238,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-internet","category-media","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\/54337","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\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54338,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54337\/revisions\/54338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}