{"id":64349,"date":"2024-05-24T11:12:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T02:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/24\/china-military-drills-drills-seize-power-taiwan-president-inauguration"},"modified":"2024-05-24T19:28:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T10:28:49","slug":"china-testing-ability-to-seize-power-in-second-day-of-military-drills-around-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64349","title":{"rendered":"China testing ability to \u2018seize power\u2019 in second day of military drills around Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PLA says exercises launched in response to president\u2019s inauguration will test capacity to \u2018launch joint attacks and occupy key areas\u2019<\/p>\n<p>China has conducted mock missile strikes against Taiwan on a second day of military drills, which it said was testing its ability to \u201cseize power\u201d, and inflict punishment for \u201cseparatist acts\u201d after the inauguration of the island\u2019s new president.<\/p>\n<p>The exercises, which involved Chinese military units from the air force, rocket force, navy, army and coastguard, were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/23\/china-taiwan-punishment-military-drills-president-inauguration\">announced suddenly on Thursday morning<\/a>, with maps showing five approximate target areas in the sea surrounding Taiwan\u2019s main island. Other areas targeted Taiwan\u2019s offshore islands, which are close to the Chinese mainland.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/24\/china-military-drills-drills-seize-power-taiwan-president-inauguration\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLA says exercises launched in response to president\u2019s inauguration will test capacity to \u2018launch joint attacks and occupy key areas\u2019China has conducted mock missile strikes against Taiwan on a second day of military drills, which it said was testing i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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-64349","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\/64349","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64349"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64391,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64349\/revisions\/64391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}