{"id":60432,"date":"2023-12-08T13:09:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T04:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/08\/chinese-weather-balloon-taiwan-presidential-election-security"},"modified":"2023-12-08T13:09:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T04:09:27","slug":"chinese-weather-balloon-spotted-near-taiwan-a-month-ahead-of-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60432","title":{"rendered":"Chinese weather balloon spotted near Taiwan a month ahead of presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese military aircraft including 12 fighter jets also detected in Taiwan\u2019s air defence zone in past 24 hours<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s defence ministry has said that a Chinese balloon crossed the Taiwan Strait median line on Thursday, about a month before Taiwan\u2019s presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry of national defence (MND) earlier described it as a \u201csurveillance balloon\u201d but the defence minister, Chiu Kuo-cheng later told reporters at parliament: \u201cour initial understanding is that it was a sounding balloon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/08\/chinese-weather-balloon-taiwan-presidential-election-security\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese military aircraft including 12 fighter jets also detected in Taiwan\u2019s air defence zone in past 24 hoursTaiwan\u2019s defence ministry has said that a Chinese balloon crossed the Taiwan Strait median line on Thursday, about a month before Taiwan\u2019s pr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1648,"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-60432","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\/60432","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\/1648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60433,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60432\/revisions\/60433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}