{"id":61083,"date":"2024-01-10T18:05:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T09:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2024\/jan\/10\/the-taiwanese-civilians-training-for-a-chinese-invasion-video"},"modified":"2024-01-10T18:05:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T09:05:28","slug":"the-taiwanese-civilians-training-for-a-chinese-invasion-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61083","title":{"rendered":"The Taiwanese civilians training for a Chinese invasion \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kuo Chiu, known as KC to his friends, teaches urban design at Tunghai University in Taiwan. He\u2019s also one of many of the country&#8217;s citizens who practises rifle skills in his spare time, in case of a Chinese invasion. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The population of Taiwan has long grown familiar with Beijing\u2019s pledge to one day \u2018unify\u2019 what it claims is a breakaway province. But recently, there has been a significant increase in aggressive and intimidatory acts. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s 160,000 active military personnel are vastly outnumbered by China\u2019s 2 million-member armed forces, leading many civilians to turn to voluntary medical and combat training to protect themselves. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian&#8217;s video team spent time with KC to see how he is preparing<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2024\/jan\/10\/the-taiwanese-civilians-training-for-a-chinese-invasion-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuo Chiu, known as KC to his friends, teaches urban design at Tunghai University in Taiwan. He\u2019s also one of many of the country&#8217;s citizens who practises rifle skills in his spare time, in case of a Chinese invasion. The population of Taiwan has long g&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4098,"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-61083","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\/61083","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\/4098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61084,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61083\/revisions\/61084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}