{"id":58468,"date":"2023-09-18T11:46:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T02:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/18\/taiwan-china-conflict-destructive-military-activities-fighter-jets"},"modified":"2023-09-18T11:46:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T02:46:19","slug":"taiwan-urges-china-to-stop-destructive-military-activities-as-fighter-jets-cross-median-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58468","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan urges China to stop \u2018destructive\u2019 military activities as fighter jets cross median line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan\u2019s defence ministry said that since Sunday it had spotted 103 Chinese military aircraft over the sea, a number it called a \u2018recent high\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s defence ministry has urged China to stop \u201cdestructive, unilateral action\u201d after reporting a sharp rise in Chinese military activities near the island, warning such behaviour could lead to an increase in tensions.<\/p>\n<p>China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has in recent years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/11\/china-military-warship-fighter-plane-activity-around-taiwan\">regularly carried out military drills<\/a> around the island as it seeks to assert its sovereignty claims and pressure Taipei.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/18\/taiwan-china-conflict-destructive-military-activities-fighter-jets\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan\u2019s defence ministry said that since Sunday it had spotted 103 Chinese military aircraft over the sea, a number it called a \u2018recent high\u2019Taiwan\u2019s defence ministry has urged China to stop \u201cdestructive, unilateral action\u201d after reporting a sharp ris&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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-58468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58468","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58469,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58468\/revisions\/58469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}