{"id":64615,"date":"2024-06-02T12:30:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T03:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/02\/chinas-defence-chief-repeats-threat-of-force-against-taiwanese-independence"},"modified":"2024-06-02T22:36:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T13:36:14","slug":"chinas-defence-chief-repeats-threat-of-force-against-taiwanese-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64615","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s defence chief repeats threat of force against Taiwanese independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dong Jun rails at length about democratic island\u2019s \u2018separatists\u2019 during Shangri-la Dialogue defence conference in Singapore<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese defence minister, Dong Jun, has warned that anyone who dares pursue independence for Taiwan will be \u201ccrushed to pieces\u201d and face \u201cdestruction\u201d, as he accused external forces of dragging the island into \u201ca dangerous situation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech to the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Asia\u2019s biggest defence summit, Dong said Beijing was committed to \u201cpeaceful unification\u201d with Taiwan, but that it was prepared \u201cfor all kinds of extreme situations\u201d and that any attempts to seek independence would be futile.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/02\/chinas-defence-chief-repeats-threat-of-force-against-taiwanese-independence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dong Jun rails at length about democratic island\u2019s \u2018separatists\u2019 during Shangri-la Dialogue defence conference in SingaporeThe Chinese defence minister, Dong Jun, has warned that anyone who dares pursue independence for Taiwan will be \u201ccrushed to piece&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,50,74,45,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64615","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64628,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64615\/revisions\/64628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}