{"id":70986,"date":"2025-04-12T08:05:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T23:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/12\/dont-panic-but-dont-relax-taiwans-plan-to-use-7-eleven-chains-as-wartime-hubs"},"modified":"2025-04-12T08:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T23:05:29","slug":"dont-panic-but-dont-relax-taiwans-plan-to-use-7-eleven-chains-as-wartime-hubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70986","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Don\u2019t panic, but don\u2019t relax\u2019: Taiwan\u2019s plan \u2018to use 7-Eleven chains\u2019 as wartime hubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From energy security to boosting internet connections, Taiwan is working on ways to protect its population if China attacks<\/p>\n<p>If war comes to Taiwan, the local citizens might be sent to their nearest 7-Eleven.<\/p>\n<p>No one knows for sure what a Chinese attack on Taiwan will look like, but there are some assumptions made by government planners. They expect Taiwan\u2019s military and maybe police will be sent to frontlines, leaving civilian first responders in charge of care and control.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/12\/dont-panic-but-dont-relax-taiwans-plan-to-use-7-eleven-chains-as-wartime-hubs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From energy security to boosting internet connections, Taiwan is working on ways to protect its population if China attacksIf war comes to Taiwan, the local citizens might be sent to their nearest 7-Eleven.No one knows for sure what a Chinese attack on&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70986","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\/70986","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=70986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70987,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70986\/revisions\/70987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}