{"id":62655,"date":"2024-03-19T09:55:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T00:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/19\/in-the-busy-waters-between-china-and-taiwan-the-de-facto-border-is-being-tested"},"modified":"2024-03-19T09:55:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T00:55:29","slug":"in-the-busy-waters-between-china-and-taiwan-the-de-facto-border-is-being-tested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62655","title":{"rendered":"In the busy waters between China and Taiwan, the de facto border is being tested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a fatal capsize off Kinmen island, China has rejected the existence of the prohibited waters line, which has been tacitly respected since the 1990s<\/p>\n<p>Motoring across the calm waters of the South China Sea, Taiwanese captain Lu Wen-shiung recalls the old days, when Chinese and Taiwanese fishers used to meet behind rocky headlands, anchoring their boats out of the authorities\u2019 sight, to share a meal. There was less surveillance then, and the two sides were more friendly, fishing the same waters, occasionally selling to each other on the sly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were like brothers, we had a good relationship, they would even cook for us,\u201d he says. \u201cBut \u2026 now the control has become more strict, the [Chinese] coast guard will call me if the boats are too close.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/19\/in-the-busy-waters-between-china-and-taiwan-the-de-facto-border-is-being-tested\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a fatal capsize off Kinmen island, China has rejected the existence of the prohibited waters line, which has been tacitly respected since the 1990sMotoring across the calm waters of the South China Sea, Taiwanese captain Lu Wen-shiung recalls the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4167,"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-62655","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\/62655","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\/4167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62656,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62655\/revisions\/62656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}