{"id":58770,"date":"2023-09-27T13:56:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T04:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/27\/china-military-excercises-near-taiwan"},"modified":"2023-09-27T13:56:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T04:56:55","slug":"military-exercises-near-taiwan-aimed-at-combating-arrogance-of-separatists-says-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58770","title":{"rendered":"Military exercises near Taiwan aimed at combating \u2018arrogance\u2019 of separatists, says China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Increased frequency of Chinese drills has raised the risk of events \u2018getting out of hand\u2019, the island\u2019s defence minister said<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s government has said that recent drills near Taiwan were aimed at combating the \u201carrogance\u201d of separatist forces, after Taipei reported a rise in military activity in recent weeks, including exercises on land facing the island.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory \u2013 a claim Taipei rejects \u2013 has said this month that it had observed dozens of fighters, drones, bombers and other aircraft, as well as warships and the Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong, operating nearby.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/27\/china-military-excercises-near-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increased frequency of Chinese drills has raised the risk of events \u2018getting out of hand\u2019, the island\u2019s defence minister saidChina\u2019s government has said that recent drills near Taiwan were aimed at combating the \u201carrogance\u201d of separatist forces, after &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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-58770","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\/58770","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58771,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58770\/revisions\/58771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}