{"id":64336,"date":"2024-05-23T22:46:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T13:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/23\/how-significant-are-chinas-military-drills-around-taiwan"},"modified":"2024-05-23T22:46:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T13:46:34","slug":"how-significant-are-chinas-military-drills-around-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64336","title":{"rendered":"How significant are China\u2019s military drills around Taiwan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has launched two days of exercises after island swore in new president. How do they compare with previous ones?<\/p>\n<p>China has launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/23\/china-taiwan-punishment-military-drills-president-inauguration\">two days of military drills<\/a> around Taiwan after the island swore in its new president, Lai Ching-te.<\/p>\n<p>Lai takes over from Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan\u2019s president since 2016. Both are from the Democratic Progressive party (DPP), a pro-sovereignty political party detested by the Chinese government, which views the group as separatists. China claims Taiwan as part of its territory and has vowed to take control of it, with force if necessary.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/23\/how-significant-are-chinas-military-drills-around-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has launched two days of exercises after island swore in new president. How do they compare with previous ones?China has launched two days of military drills around Taiwan after the island swore in its new president, Lai Ching-te.Lai takes over f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3767,"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":[50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/64336","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\/3767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64337,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64336\/revisions\/64337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}