{"id":71043,"date":"2025-04-14T09:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T00:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/14\/china-taiwan-military-drills-trump-barges-asia-pacific-security"},"modified":"2025-04-14T09:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T00:30:18","slug":"invasion-barges-subsea-cable-cutters-and-surprise-naval-drills-how-china-is-testing-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71043","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Invasion\u2019 barges, subsea cable cutters and surprise naval drills: how China is testing Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has been flexing its maritime muscle in the Indo-Pacific \u2013 moves that pose a challenge for the US president<\/p>\n<p>In the space of just five weeks, China held live-fire drills on the doorsteps of Australia, Taiwan and Vietnam. It tested <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/20\/china-landing-barges-shuqiao-ships-what-does-this-mean-for-taiwan\">new landing barges<\/a> on ships that could facilitate an amphibious assault on Taiwan. And it unveiled deep-sea cable cutters with the ability to switch off another country\u2019s internet access \u2013 a tool no other nation admits to having.<\/p>\n<p>China has been flexing its maritime muscle in the Indo-Pacific to send a message of supremacy to its regional neighbours, experts say. But it\u2019s also testing the thinking of a bigger rival further afield: Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/14\/china-taiwan-military-drills-trump-barges-asia-pacific-security\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has been flexing its maritime muscle in the Indo-Pacific \u2013 moves that pose a challenge for the US presidentIn the space of just five weeks, China held live-fire drills on the doorsteps of Australia, Taiwan and Vietnam. It tested new landing barge&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4690,"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":[41,50,415,74,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71043","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\/4690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71044,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71043\/revisions\/71044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}