{"id":55013,"date":"2023-05-11T09:10:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T00:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/11\/collapsing-buildings-incoming-missiles-taiwan-rehearses-a-chinese-assault-on-its-cities"},"modified":"2023-05-11T09:10:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T00:10:43","slug":"collapsing-buildings-incoming-missiles-taiwan-rehearses-a-chinese-assault-on-its-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55013","title":{"rendered":"Collapsing buildings, incoming missiles: Taiwan rehearses a Chinese assault on its cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Annual emergency drills have for the first time included a military strike on Taipei, a sign of worsening cross-strait relations<\/p>\n<p>On a Thursday afternoon in Taipei, it was 26 August 2025 and China\u2019s military had just fired a missile into the city, hitting an apartment block. Chinese navy ships had massed in the Taiwan Strait and war was expected. It was all hands on deck.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue squads and paramedics raced around blocked off sites in the city\u2019s business district. Cherrypickers and cranes plucked rookie firefighters \u2013 dressed as injured civilians \u2013 from the rooftop of a fake demolished building and half-crushed buses.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/11\/collapsing-buildings-incoming-missiles-taiwan-rehearses-a-chinese-assault-on-its-cities\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual emergency drills have for the first time included a military strike on Taipei, a sign of worsening cross-strait relationsOn a Thursday afternoon in Taipei, it was 26 August 2025 and China\u2019s military had just fired a missile into the city, hittin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2626,"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-55013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55013","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\/2626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55014,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55013\/revisions\/55014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}