{"id":55121,"date":"2023-05-15T08:01:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T23:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/15\/chinas-war-chest-beijings-great-wall-of-steel-faces-obstacles-to-military-supremacy"},"modified":"2023-05-15T08:01:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T23:01:07","slug":"chinas-war-chest-beijings-great-wall-of-steel-faces-obstacles-to-military-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55121","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s war chest: Beijing\u2019s \u2018great wall of steel\u2019 faces obstacles to military supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite having the world\u2019s biggest armed forces, China\u2019s military faces a number of serious obstacles in any potential invasion of Taiwan<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s foreign minister says he is preparing for conflict with China. In an interview this month, Joseph Wu said that \u201cwe are taking the Chinese military threat very seriously\u201d and named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/21\/taiwan-foreign-minister-warns-of-conflict-with-china-in-2027\">2027 as the year to be concerned about<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As relations between China and the US spiral ever lower, many analysts are increasingly worried that a conflict could be on the horizon and that the relationship between Taiwan and the US will be an important factor in influencing if and when China attempts to annex the self-governing island.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/15\/chinas-war-chest-beijings-great-wall-of-steel-faces-obstacles-to-military-supremacy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite having the world\u2019s biggest armed forces, China\u2019s military faces a number of serious obstacles in any potential invasion of TaiwanTaiwan\u2019s foreign minister says he is preparing for conflict with China. In an interview this month, Joseph Wu said &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55121","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55138,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55121\/revisions\/55138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}