{"id":67226,"date":"2024-10-14T13:28:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T04:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/14\/china-military-taiwan-drills-president-lai-national-day-speech"},"modified":"2024-10-14T21:55:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T12:55:26","slug":"china-launches-large-scale-military-drills-around-taiwan-after-president-lais-national-day-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67226","title":{"rendered":"China conducts military drills around Taiwan in warning to island\u2019s president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PLA and Chinese coastguard approach Taiwan by sea and air in move linked by state media to \u2018separatist\u2019 National Day speech<\/p>\n<p>Chinese military and coastguard personnel surrounded Taiwan\u2019s main island on Monday for a day of large-scale drills that Beijing said were a warning against \u201cseparatist acts\u201d, in the wake of a recent speech by Taiwan\u2019s president.<\/p>\n<p>State media linked the drills to a National Day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/06\/mainland-china-not-the-motherland-says-taiwans-president-because-our-republic-is-older\">speech last Thursday by Taiwan\u2019s president, Lai Ching-te<\/a>, in which he repeated that the People\u2019s Republic of China \u201chas no right to represent Taiwan\u201d, but that he was willing to work with it to maintain peace and stability.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/14\/china-military-taiwan-drills-president-lai-national-day-speech\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLA and Chinese coastguard approach Taiwan by sea and air in move linked by state media to \u2018separatist\u2019 National Day speechChinese military and coastguard personnel surrounded Taiwan\u2019s main island on Monday for a day of large-scale drills that Beijing &#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":[41,50,939,74,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-joe-biden","category-taiwan","category-us-news","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\/67226","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=67226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67236,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67226\/revisions\/67236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}