{"id":70688,"date":"2025-04-02T14:28:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T05:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/02\/us-says-china-military-drills-targeting-taiwan-put-regions-security-at-risk"},"modified":"2025-04-02T20:29:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T11:29:22","slug":"us-says-china-military-drills-targeting-taiwan-put-regions-security-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70688","title":{"rendered":"China military drills targeting Taiwan put region\u2019s security at risk, says US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing continues drills in Taiwan strait, practising hitting key ports and energy infrastructure<\/p>\n<p>The US has accused China of putting the region\u2019s security at risk after it launched a second day of military drills targeting Taiwan with a rehearsal blockade and attack.<\/p>\n<p>The China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) began the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/01\/china-launches-surprise-military-drills-around-taiwan\">joint drills without notice on Tuesday morning<\/a>, sending 76 aircraft and more than 20 navy and coastguard ships, including the Shandong carrier group, to positions around Taiwan\u2019s main island.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/02\/us-says-china-military-drills-targeting-taiwan-put-regions-security-at-risk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing continues drills in Taiwan strait, practising hitting key ports and energy infrastructureThe US has accused China of putting the region\u2019s security at risk after it launched a second day of military drills targeting Taiwan with a rehearsal block&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1648,"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":[41,50,74,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/70688","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\/1648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70706,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70688\/revisions\/70706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}