{"id":59944,"date":"2023-11-19T13:48:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T04:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/19\/taiwan-reports-increased-chinese-military-drills-nearby"},"modified":"2023-11-19T13:48:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T04:48:35","slug":"taiwan-reports-increased-chinese-military-drills-nearby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59944","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan reports increased Chinese military drills nearby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defence ministry detects nine Chinese aircraft crossing Taiwan Strait\u2019s median line after tensions were a focus of Biden-Xi talks at Apec summit<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan has reported renewed Chinese military activity including nine aircraft crossing the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait and warships carrying out \u201ccombat readiness patrols\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Democratically governed Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, has complained for the past four years of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/04\/taiwan-preparing-for-war-without-seeking-war-as-china-begins-military-exercises\">regular Chinese military patrols<\/a> and drills near the island, as Beijing seeks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/china-and-taiwan-whats-behind-the-tensions-in-30-seconds\">to pressure Taipei<\/a> over its sovereignty claims.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/19\/taiwan-reports-increased-chinese-military-drills-nearby\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence ministry detects nine Chinese aircraft crossing Taiwan Strait\u2019s median line after tensions were a focus of Biden-Xi talks at Apec summitTaiwan has reported renewed Chinese military activity including nine aircraft crossing the sensitive median &#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":[50,939,74,47,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-joe-biden","category-taiwan","category-us-news","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59944","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=59944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59945,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59944\/revisions\/59945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}