{"id":54386,"date":"2023-04-16T21:31:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T12:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/16\/china-rapidly-achieve-air-superiority-taiwan-us-leaks"},"modified":"2023-04-16T21:31:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T12:31:30","slug":"china-likely-to-rapidly-achieve-air-superiority-over-taiwan-us-leaks-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54386","title":{"rendered":"China likely to rapidly achieve air superiority over Taiwan, US leaks say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Documents among those shared by alleged leaker raise questions over island\u2019s military readiness<\/p>\n<p>China would probably establish air superiority very rapidly in any attack on Taiwan, according to leaked US intelligence assessments that raise disturbing questions about the self-ruled island\u2019s military readiness.<\/p>\n<p>The documents, part of a series allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/pentagon-leaks\">leaked by the US air national guardsman Jack Teixeira<\/a>, emerged as G7 foreign ministers met to discuss a common China strategy and Beijing briefly halted flights over part of the East China Sea on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/16\/china-rapidly-achieve-air-superiority-taiwan-us-leaks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documents among those shared by alleged leaker raise questions over island\u2019s military readinessChina would probably establish air superiority very rapidly in any attack on Taiwan, according to leaked US intelligence assessments that raise disturbing qu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1107,"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":[41,50,74,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/54386","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\/1107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54387,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54386\/revisions\/54387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}