{"id":75135,"date":"2025-11-12T09:59:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/12\/china-taiwan-statements-longer-term-strategy"},"modified":"2025-11-12T09:59:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T00:59:01","slug":"china-sharpens-its-language-on-taiwan-as-part-of-longer-term-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75135","title":{"rendered":"China sharpens its language on Taiwan as part of \u2018longer-term\u2019 strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A series of statements, articles, photos and even a new national holiday indicate a shift in Beijing\u2019s stance over the island, analysts say<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks China has released a series of statements, articles and photos, that analysts say signal an escalation in the ruling Chinese Communist Party\u2019s approach to Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing claims Taiwan as a province and has vowed to annex it under what it terms \u201creunification\u201d. China\u2019s military is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/18\/taiwan-war-games-china-attack\">not believed to be capable<\/a> of a full invasion yet, but senior officials have recently started using sharper language.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/12\/china-taiwan-statements-longer-term-strategy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of statements, articles, photos and even a new national holiday indicate a shift in Beijing\u2019s stance over the island, analysts sayIn recent weeks China has released a series of statements, articles and photos, that analysts say signal an escal&#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":[41,50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75135","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\/75135","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=75135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75136,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75135\/revisions\/75136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}