{"id":26406,"date":"2022-08-10T13:21:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T13:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=26406"},"modified":"2022-08-10T13:23:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T13:23:42","slug":"china-appears-to-wind-down-threatening-wargames-near-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=26406","title":{"rendered":"China appears to wind down threatening wargames near Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ABC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BEIJING &#8212; China on Wednesday repeated military threats against <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/Taiwan\" target=\"_blank\">Taiwan<\/a> while appearing to wind down wargames near the self-governing island it claims as its own territory that have raised tensions between the two sides to their highest level in years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The message in a lengthy policy statement issued by the Cabinet\u2019s Taiwan Affairs Office and its news department followed almost a week of missile firings and incursions into Taiwanese waters and airspace by Chinese warships and air force planes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The actions disrupted flights and shipping in a region crucial to global supply chains, prompting strong condemnation from the U.S., Japan and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An English-language version of the Chinese statement said Beijing would \u201cwork with the greatest sincerity and exert our utmost efforts to achieve peaceful reunification.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut we will not renounce the use of force, and we reserve the option of taking all necessary measures. This is to guard against external interference and all separatist activities,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe will always be ready to respond with the use of force or other necessary means to interference by external forces or radical action by separatist elements. Our ultimate goal is to ensure the prospects of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/Taiwan\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">China<\/a>\u2019s peaceful reunification and advance this process,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China says its threatening moves were prompted by a visit to Taiwan last week by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but Taiwan says such visits are routine and that China used her trip merely as a pretext to up its threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an additional response to Pelosi\u2019s visit, China said it was cutting off dialogue on issues from maritime security to climate change with the U.S., Taiwan\u2019s chief military and political backer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taiwan&#8217;s foreign minister warned Tuesday that the Chinese military drills reflect ambitions to control large swaths of the western Pacific, while Taipei conducted its own exercises to underscore its readiness to defend itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beijing&#8217;s strategy would include controlling the East and South China seas via the Taiwan Strait and imposing a blockade to prevent the U.S. and its allies from aiding Taiwan in the event of an attack, Joseph Wu told a news conference in Taipei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News: BEIJING &#8212; China on Wednesday repeated military threats against Taiwan while appearing to wind down wargames near the self-governing island it claims as its own territory that have raised tensions between the two sides to their highest level in years. The message in a lengthy policy statement issued by the Cabinet\u2019s Taiwan Affairs Office and its news department followed almost a week of missile firings and incursions into Taiwanese waters and airspace by Chinese warships and air force planes. The actions disrupted flights and shipping in a region crucial to global supply chains, prompting strong condemnation from the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26408,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26406\/revisions\/26408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}