{"id":72926,"date":"2025-07-17T21:04:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/17\/taiwan-simulates-china-attack-city-streets-urban-warfare-annual-drill"},"modified":"2025-07-17T21:04:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:04:55","slug":"preparation-is-our-only-option-sirens-wail-as-taiwan-simulates-china-attack-in-city-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72926","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Preparation is our only option\u2019: sirens wail as Taiwan simulates China attack in city streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As annual drills become more significant, this year Taipei civilians have been experiencing what war might feel like<\/p>\n<p>Usually people in Taipei walk quite slowly. Notoriously so. But at 1.27pm on Thursday some were almost sprinting through the busy shopping district of Ximen. They knew they had three minutes to get where they needed to be or they would be stuck in the nearest underground bunker for half an hour.<\/p>\n<p>At 1.30pm exactly, deafening sirens wailed across the city, and a text hit every mobile phone warning: \u201cThe enemy has launched a missile attack toward northern Taiwan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/17\/taiwan-simulates-china-attack-city-streets-urban-warfare-annual-drill\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As annual drills become more significant, this year Taipei civilians have been experiencing what war might feel likeUsually people in Taipei walk quite slowly. Notoriously so. But at 1.27pm on Thursday some were almost sprinting through the busy shoppi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4716,"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-72926","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\/72926","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\/4716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72927,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72926\/revisions\/72927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}