{"id":66016,"date":"2024-08-04T20:35:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T11:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/04\/firing-a-loud-shot-taiwan-tv-show-zero-day-aims-to-spark-debate-over-potential-china-invasion"},"modified":"2024-08-04T20:35:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T11:35:37","slug":"firing-a-loud-shot-taiwan-tv-show-zero-day-aims-to-spark-debate-over-potential-china-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66016","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Firing a loud shot\u2019: Taiwan TV show Zero Day aims to spark debate over potential China invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director Lo Ging-zim hopes drama series will reverse people\u2019s desensitisation to possible war after years of Chinese pressure<\/p>\n<p>Last Wednesday as the streets of Taipei emptied and sirens wailed across town for Taiwan\u2019s annual air raid drills, a crowd of journalists, actors and film crew, watched similar scenes play out on screen. The press event, inside a city theatre, was launching a new Taiwanese series, Zero Day, which depicts a Chinese invasion. Timing the launch with the air raid drill was a clever piece of theatrics, but it also emphasised the real-world implications of what both events were demonstrating \u2013 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/22\/china-threatens-death-penalty-for-taiwan-independence-diehards\">worsening threat<\/a> of China\u2019s ruling Communist party making good on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/10\/china-taiwan-destined-for-reunification-xi-jinping-tells-ma-ying-jeou\">promise to annex Taiwan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-minute Zero Day trailer released that day sparked debate and anxiety across Taiwan. Despite the threat of invasion looming for decades, there are few if any modern Taiwanese cultural examples that depict this aspect of its existence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/04\/firing-a-loud-shot-taiwan-tv-show-zero-day-aims-to-spark-debate-over-potential-china-invasion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Lo Ging-zim hopes drama series will reverse people\u2019s desensitisation to possible war after years of Chinese pressureLast Wednesday as the streets of Taipei emptied and sirens wailed across town for Taiwan\u2019s annual air raid drills, a crowd of j&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4255,"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":[50,74,520],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-taiwan","category-television"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66016","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\/4255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66017,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66016\/revisions\/66017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}