{"id":64318,"date":"2024-05-23T13:48:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T04:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/23\/china-taiwan-punishment-military-drills-president-inauguration"},"modified":"2024-05-23T21:53:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T12:53:51","slug":"china-launches-punishment-drills-around-taiwan-after-inauguration-of-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64318","title":{"rendered":"China launches \u2018punishment\u2019 drills around Taiwan after inauguration of new president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan\u2019s military says its forces are on alert as China carries out mock strikes with jets carrying live missiles<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of Chinese fighter jets carrying live missiles have carried out mock strikes against Taiwanese targets, China\u2019s military has said, on the first day of surprise military drills announced as \u201cpunishment\u201d after Taiwan inaugurated its new president.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) announced the immediate beginning of two days of drills, codenamed Joint Sword-2024A, surrounding Taiwan and its islands near the Chinese border.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/23\/china-taiwan-punishment-military-drills-president-inauguration\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan\u2019s military says its forces are on alert as China carries out mock strikes with jets carrying live missilesDozens of Chinese fighter jets carrying live missiles have carried out mock strikes against Taiwanese targets, China\u2019s military has said, o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2626,"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-64318","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\/64318","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\/2626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64338,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64318\/revisions\/64338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}