{"id":75872,"date":"2026-01-06T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/06\/what-us-action-in-venezuela-means-for-taiwan"},"modified":"2026-01-06T10:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:00:22","slug":"it-ought-to-provide-a-deterrent-what-us-action-in-venezuela-means-for-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75872","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It ought to provide a deterrent\u2019: what US action in Venezuela means for Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perception that Chinese-made weapons could not stop a \u2018decapitation strike\u2019 may give Beijing pause for thought<\/p>\n<p>The sight of a hostile regional superpower launching an overnight raid to depose the leader of a smaller neighbouring country could easily have sent pulses in Taiwan racing.<\/p>\n<p>The US on Saturday revealed the details of a surprise raid to capture Venezuela\u2019s leader, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/nicolas-maduro\">Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a>, who was whisked away to the US, where he was frogmarched into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/05\/nicolas-maduro-venezuela-new-york-court\">a court in New York on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/06\/what-us-action-in-venezuela-means-for-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perception that Chinese-made weapons could not stop a \u2018decapitation strike\u2019 may give Beijing pause for thoughtThe sight of a hostile regional superpower launching an overnight raid to depose the leader of a smaller neighbouring country could easily hav&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[41,50,415,3207,74,748,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-nicolas-maduro","category-taiwan","category-venezuela","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\/75872","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75884,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75872\/revisions\/75884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}