{"id":56527,"date":"2023-07-09T19:00:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/09\/ukrainian-strategy-has-become-a-model-taiwanese-beef-up-military-to-face-china-threat"},"modified":"2023-07-09T19:00:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T10:00:41","slug":"ukrainian-strategy-has-become-a-model-taiwanese-beef-up-military-to-face-china-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56527","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ukrainian strategy has become a model\u2019: Taiwanese beef up military to face China threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conscripts will serve longer in attempt to improve current crop of \u2018strawberry soldiers\u2019 who bruise too easily<\/p>\n<p>For many people in Taiwan, the threat of conflict with China is a distant prospect that has been lingering in the air for some seven decades. Concern in the west that the Chinese Communist party, led by Xi Jinping in Beijing, is moving ever closer towards attempting to realise its goal of \u201creunifying\u201d China and Taiwan, by force if necessary, can seem hysterical.<\/p>\n<p>The only beneficiary of the increasing tension between China and Taiwan is the US, which is making money from selling arms to Taipei, jokes one resident of Kinmen, a small Taiwanese island a few miles from China\u2019s eastern coastline.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/09\/ukrainian-strategy-has-become-a-model-taiwanese-beef-up-military-to-face-china-threat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conscripts will serve longer in attempt to improve current crop of \u2018strawberry soldiers\u2019 who bruise too easilyFor many people in Taiwan, the threat of conflict with China is a distant prospect that has been lingering in the air for some seven decades. &#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":[41,50,74,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56527","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"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56527","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=56527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56528,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56527\/revisions\/56528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}