{"id":57674,"date":"2023-08-19T15:51:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T06:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/19\/china-sends-dozens-of-warplanes-near-taiwan-after-vice-presidents-us-stopover"},"modified":"2023-08-19T15:51:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T06:51:07","slug":"china-sends-dozens-of-warplanes-near-taiwan-after-vice-presidents-us-stopover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57674","title":{"rendered":"China sends dozens of warplanes near Taiwan after vice-president\u2019s US stopover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese state media says military exercises involving planes and vessels were intended as a \u2018stern warning\u2019 against colluding with \u2018foreign elements\u2019<\/p>\n<p>China launched military drills around Taiwan on Saturday as a \u201cstern warning\u201d after voicing anger over a stopover in the United States by the island\u2019s vice-president, William Lai.<\/p>\n<p>Lai \u2013 the frontrunner in Taiwan\u2019s presidential election next year and a vocal opponent of Beijing\u2019s claims to the island \u2013 returned on Friday from a trip to Paraguay during which he stopped briefly in New York and San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/19\/china-sends-dozens-of-warplanes-near-taiwan-after-vice-presidents-us-stopover\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese state media says military exercises involving planes and vessels were intended as a \u2018stern warning\u2019 against colluding with \u2018foreign elements\u2019China launched military drills around Taiwan on Saturday as a \u201cstern warning\u201d after voicing anger over &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-57674","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\/57674","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57675,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57674\/revisions\/57675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}