{"id":73811,"date":"2025-09-02T22:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/02\/china-drilling-oil-gas-inside-taiwan-exclusive-economic-zone"},"modified":"2025-09-02T22:00:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:00:54","slug":"china-drilling-for-oil-and-gas-inside-taiwans-exclusive-economic-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73811","title":{"rendered":"China drilling for oil and gas inside Taiwan\u2019s exclusive economic zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Experts say the move could be part of Beijing\u2019s \u2018greyzone\u2019 grab for disputed territory<\/p>\n<p>China is drilling for oil and gas inside Taiwan\u2019s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), a move that analysts believe is likely part of Beijing\u2019s unilateral grab for disputed territory that could also aid a future invasion of Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>During July and August at least 12 oil and gas vessels and permanent structures were detected inside Taiwan\u2019s EEZ \u2013 including one within 50km of the restricted-waters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/dec\/27\/chinese-warships-enter-south-china-sea-near-taiwan-in-show-of-force\">border of the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands<\/a> \u2013 as well as several steel supports for fixed offshore drilling platforms, called jackets. Their presence inside Taiwan\u2019s EEZ have not been previously reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/02\/china-drilling-oil-gas-inside-taiwan-exclusive-economic-zone\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Experts say the move could be part of Beijing\u2019s \u2018greyzone\u2019 grab for disputed territoryChina is drilling for oil and gas inside Taiwan\u2019s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), a move that analysts believe is likely part of Beijing\u2019s unilateral grab f&#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":[41,6,50,449,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-oil","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73811","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=73811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73812,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73811\/revisions\/73812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}