{"id":73927,"date":"2025-09-04T19:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/04\/taiwan-china-oil-gas-drilling-exclusive-economic-zone-pratas-islands"},"modified":"2025-09-04T19:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T10:41:07","slug":"taiwan-accuses-china-of-breaching-international-law-over-drilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73927","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan accuses China of breaching international law over drilling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Island\u2019s government demands halt to Chinese oil and gas operations in its exclusive economic zone<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s government has accused China of breaching international law by drilling for oil and gas inside Taiwan\u2019s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and immediately demanded it halt the activity.<\/p>\n<p>The statement from the office of Taiwan\u2019s president, Lai Ching-te, came after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/02\/china-drilling-oil-gas-inside-taiwan-exclusive-economic-zone\">revelations first reported by the Guardian<\/a> that several Chinese oil rigs and associated vessels had been detected inside Taiwan\u2019s EEZ, near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/dec\/27\/chinese-warships-enter-south-china-sea-near-taiwan-in-show-of-force\">the disputed Pratas Islands<\/a>, which are under Taiwanese control.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/04\/taiwan-china-oil-gas-drilling-exclusive-economic-zone-pratas-islands\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Island\u2019s government demands halt to Chinese oil and gas operations in its exclusive economic zoneTaiwan\u2019s government has accused China of breaching international law by drilling for oil and gas inside Taiwan\u2019s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and immediat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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-73927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73927","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73928,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73927\/revisions\/73928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}