{"id":75202,"date":"2025-11-17T14:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/17\/china-and-japan-are-in-a-war-of-words-over-taiwan-what-happens-next"},"modified":"2025-11-17T19:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T10:57:11","slug":"china-and-japan-are-in-a-war-of-words-over-taiwan-what-happens-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75202","title":{"rendered":"China and Japan are in a war of words over Taiwan \u2013 what happens next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s hawkish new PM has angered Beijing after suggesting her country could become involved in a military conflict between China and Taiwan<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo and Beijing are embroiled in a deepening row over Taiwan after Japan\u2019s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, suggested that her country could potentially become militarily involved in the event of an attempted Chinese invasion of the self-governing island.<\/p>\n<p>Why has Taiwan become a flashpoint between the north-east Asian neighbours and major trading partners, and is there a risk that the war of words could escalate?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/17\/china-and-japan-are-in-a-war-of-words-over-taiwan-what-happens-next\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s hawkish new PM has angered Beijing after suggesting her country could become involved in a military conflict between China and TaiwanTokyo and Beijing are embroiled in a deepening row over Taiwan after Japan\u2019s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, su&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4791,"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":[41,50,88,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-japan","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\/75202","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\/4791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75212,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75202\/revisions\/75212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}