{"id":75789,"date":"2025-12-29T14:57:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T05:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/29\/china-live-fire-military-drills-around-taiwan"},"modified":"2025-12-29T22:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:40:12","slug":"china-launches-live-fire-drills-around-taiwan-simulating-blockade-of-major-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75789","title":{"rendered":"China launches live-fire drills around Taiwan simulating blockade of major ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taipei condemns exercise that Chinese army calls \u2018a stern warning\u2019 against separatist and external forces<\/p>\n<p>China has launched live-fire military drills around Taiwan, simulating a blockade of major ports, attacking maritime targets, and fending off international \u201cinterference\u201d, in what it calls a warning to \u201cseparatist\u201d forces in Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>The People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) \u2013 the military wing of the ruling Communist party in China \u2013 sent its navy, air force, rocket force and coastguard to surround Taiwan on Monday morning for a surprise exercise called \u201cJustice Mission 2025\u201d, which began less than an hour after it was announced.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/29\/china-live-fire-military-drills-around-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taipei condemns exercise that Chinese army calls \u2018a stern warning\u2019 against separatist and external forcesChina has launched live-fire military drills around Taiwan, simulating a blockade of major ports, attacking maritime targets, and fending off inter&#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-75789","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\/75789","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=75789"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75801,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75789\/revisions\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}