{"id":73698,"date":"2025-08-28T20:01:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T11:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/28\/taipei-city-council-in-the-dog-house-over-chinese-made-patrol-robot"},"modified":"2025-08-28T20:01:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T11:01:43","slug":"taipei-city-council-in-the-dog-house-over-chinese-made-patrol-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73698","title":{"rendered":"Taipei City council in the dog house over Chinese-made patrol robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition councillor in Taiwanese capital accuses authorities of sending \u2018Trojan horse\u2019 into citizens\u2019 daily lives<\/p>\n<p>Taipei City council has come under fire after admitting that a robot dog it bought to help patrol city streets using surveillance cameras was made by a Chinese companylinked to the Chinese military.<\/p>\n<p>Hammer Lee, the deputy mayor of Taiwan\u2019s capital, introduced a \u201cnew patrol partner\u201d for the management and repair of pedestrian areas in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0tF7rw8xmkrjggHK2hLquQNQJQx2QWCiNM6fVrMMhkuQHgfDZUg2du2N4UxMdFwtUl&amp;id=100051818071280\">post<\/a> on Facebook on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/28\/taipei-city-council-in-the-dog-house-over-chinese-made-patrol-robot\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition councillor in Taiwanese capital accuses authorities of sending \u2018Trojan horse\u2019 into citizens\u2019 daily livesTaipei City council has come under fire after admitting that a robot dog it bought to help patrol city streets using surveillance cameras&#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":[967,41,6,50,667,611,74,58,560],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-ai","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-espionage","category-robots","category-taiwan","category-technology","category-technology-sector"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73698","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=73698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73699,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73698\/revisions\/73699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}