{"id":75802,"date":"2025-12-30T12:58:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/30\/trump-not-worried-china-military-live-fire-drills-taiwan"},"modified":"2025-12-30T19:56:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T10:56:29","slug":"trump-not-worried-by-chinas-simulated-attack-on-taiwan-he-says-as-live-fire-drills-enter-second-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75802","title":{"rendered":"Trump \u2018not worried\u2019 as China\u2019s live-fire Taiwan wargame enters second day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president says Chinese leader did not notify him of drills that have involved live missile launches into Taiwan strait<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/china-and-taiwan-whats-behind-the-tensions-in-30-seconds\">Taiwan-China tensions \u2013 explained in 30 seconds<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump has said he is not worried by China\u2019s live-fire military drills surrounding Taiwan and that he has a great relationship with the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, who \u201chasn\u2019t told me anything about it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The US president\u2019s comments came amid a large two-day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/29\/china-live-fire-military-drills-around-taiwan\">surprise attack simulation launched by the People\u2019s Liberation Army<\/a> (PLA) on Monday and Tuesday, which China has called \u201cJustice Mission 2025\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/30\/trump-not-worried-china-military-live-fire-drills-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president says Chinese leader did not notify him of drills that have involved live missile launches into Taiwan straitTaiwan-China tensions \u2013 explained in 30 secondsDonald Trump has said he is not worried by China\u2019s live-fire military drills surroun&#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":[41,50,415,74,554,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-taiwan","category-trump-administration","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75802","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=75802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75816,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75802\/revisions\/75816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}