{"id":57643,"date":"2023-08-18T03:20:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T18:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/17\/china-army-filmed-apparently-preparing-for-conflict-in-taiwan-strait"},"modified":"2023-08-18T03:20:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T18:20:40","slug":"chinas-army-filmed-apparently-preparing-for-conflict-in-taiwan-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57643","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s army filmed apparently preparing for conflict in Taiwan strait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Propaganda video shows troops running past anti-landing barricades similar to those that dot Taiwan\u2019s coast<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s army released a propaganda video showing soldiers preparing for a conflict in what appears to be the Taiwan strait.<\/p>\n<p>The one-and-a-half-minute <a href=\"https:\/\/military.cctv.com\/2023\/08\/17\/ARTI7VnnaJxJtr0cqDehTE6L230817.shtml?spm=C95414.PuW4ufGzN1Pq.EEQoWn88VBnG.4\">video<\/a>, published on the Eastern Theatre Command\u2019s official WeChat account on Thursday, is titled \u201cReading the Strait\u201d and shows soldiers in combat gear doing press-ups under crashing waves, a tank battalion driving into the sunset and troops running up sandy shores past anti-landing barricades, similar to those that dot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/30\/taiwan-kinmen-islands-plan-peace-bridge-china\">Taiwan\u2019s coast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/17\/china-army-filmed-apparently-preparing-for-conflict-in-taiwan-strait\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Propaganda video shows troops running past anti-landing barricades similar to those that dot Taiwan\u2019s coastChina\u2019s army released a propaganda video showing soldiers preparing for a conflict in what appears to be the Taiwan strait.The one-and-a-half-min&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"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-57643","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\/57643","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\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57644,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57643\/revisions\/57644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}