{"id":68810,"date":"2025-01-08T09:01:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T00:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/08\/the-maps-that-show-how-chinas-military-is-squeezing-taiwan"},"modified":"2025-01-08T09:01:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T00:01:05","slug":"the-maps-that-show-how-chinas-military-is-squeezing-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68810","title":{"rendered":"The maps that show how China\u2019s military is squeezing Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has increased its incursions into Taiwan\u2019s airspace over the last year, part of strategic harassment that is taking a toll on the island\u2019s resources<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s military launched a record number of warplane incursions around Taiwan in 2024 as it builds its ability to launch full-scale invasion, something a former chief of Taiwan\u2019s armed forces said Beijing could be capable of within a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts said China\u2019s relentless harassment had taken a toll on Taiwan\u2019s resources, but had failed to convince them to capitulate, largely because the threat of invasion was still an empty one, for now.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/08\/the-maps-that-show-how-chinas-military-is-squeezing-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has increased its incursions into Taiwan\u2019s airspace over the last year, part of strategic harassment that is taking a toll on the island\u2019s resourcesChina\u2019s military launched a record number of warplane incursions around Taiwan in 2024 as it build&#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":[41,50,74,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68810","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=68810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68811,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68810\/revisions\/68811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}