{"id":70642,"date":"2025-04-01T13:46:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T04:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/01\/china-launches-surprise-military-drills-around-taiwan"},"modified":"2025-04-01T13:46:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T04:46:25","slug":"china-launches-surprise-military-drills-around-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70642","title":{"rendered":"China launches surprise military drills around Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan says it has detected nearly 20 vessels off its coast as Beijing orders large scale sea and air exercises and calls leaders in Taipei \u2018parasites\u2019<\/p>\n<p>China has launched large-scale military drills around Taiwan, accusing its leaders of being \u201cseparatists\u201d and \u201cparasites\u201d who were pushing the democratically run island into war.<\/p>\n<p>The drills, accompanied by a propaganda campaign, were launched without warning on Tuesday morning. China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) said they were a \u201cstern warning\u201d to Taiwan\u2019s democratically elected government over what Beijing claims is separatist activity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/01\/china-launches-surprise-military-drills-around-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan says it has detected nearly 20 vessels off its coast as Beijing orders large scale sea and air exercises and calls leaders in Taipei \u2018parasites\u2019China has launched large-scale military drills around Taiwan, accusing its leaders of being \u201cseparati&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70642","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=70642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70643,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70642\/revisions\/70643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}