{"id":67257,"date":"2024-10-15T18:30:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T09:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/15\/hi-my-sweetheart-china-love-heart-propaganda-taiwan"},"modified":"2024-10-15T18:30:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T09:30:42","slug":"hi-my-sweetheart-chinas-love-heart-propaganda-labelled-creepy-in-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67257","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hi my sweetheart\u2019: China\u2019s love-heart propaganda labelled creepy in Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Image dispersed during Monday\u2019s military drills likened to sexual harassment or abusive partner<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese propaganda image dispersed during Monday\u2019s military drills around Taiwan was supposed to send a positive message to the island\u2019s people, but instead has been decried as weird, creepy, and akin to \u201csexual harassment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday China targeted Taiwan with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/14\/china-military-taiwan-drills-president-lai-national-day-speech\">major military exercises<\/a>, surrounding its main island and outer territories with planes and ships to practise a blockade and attack. Alongside a record number of warplanes, dozens of navy and coastguard vessels, and cyber-attacks, China also launched a torrent of propaganda.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/15\/hi-my-sweetheart-china-love-heart-propaganda-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image dispersed during Monday\u2019s military drills likened to sexual harassment or abusive partnerA Chinese propaganda image dispersed during Monday\u2019s military drills around Taiwan was supposed to send a positive message to the island\u2019s people, but instea&#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":[41,50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67257","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\/67257","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=67257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67273,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67257\/revisions\/67273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}