{"id":39451,"date":"2024-05-23T04:41:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T04:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39451"},"modified":"2024-05-23T04:43:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T04:43:46","slug":"taiwan-mobilises-forces-after-china-starts-punishment-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39451","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan mobilises forces after China starts &#8216;punishment&#8217; drills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Reuters:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TAIPEI\/BEIJING, May 23- Taiwan&#8217;s military mobilised its forces and said it was confident it could protect the island, after China started two days of &#8220;punishment&#8221; drills around Taiwan on Thursday in what it said was a response to &#8220;separatist acts&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exercises, in the Taiwan Strait and around groups of Taiwan-controlled islands that sit next to the Chinese coast, come just three days after Lai Ching-te took office as Taiwan&#8217;s new president, a man Beijing detests as a &#8220;separatist&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has denounced Lai&#8217;s inauguration speech on Monday, in which he called on China to stop its threats and on Tuesday Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called Lai &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/chinas-foreign-minister-calls-taiwans-new-president-disgraceful-2024-05-21\/\">disgraceful<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lai has repeatedly offered talks with China but been rebuffed. He says only Taiwan&#8217;s people can decide their future, and rejects Beijing&#8217;s sovereignty claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Eastern Theatre Command of the Chinese People&#8217;s Liberation Army (PLA) said it had started joint military drills, involving the army, navy, air force and rocket force, in areas around Taiwan at 7:45 a.m. (2345 GMT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The drills are being conducted in the Taiwan Strait, the north, south and east of Taiwan, as well as areas around the Taiwan-controlled islands of Kinmen, Matsu, Wuqiu and Dongyin, the command said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: TAIPEI\/BEIJING, May 23- Taiwan&#8217;s military mobilised its forces and said it was confident it could protect the island, after China started two days of &#8220;punishment&#8221; drills around Taiwan on Thursday in what it said was a response to &#8220;separatist acts&#8221;. The exercises, in the Taiwan Strait and around groups of Taiwan-controlled islands that sit next to the Chinese coast, come just three days after Lai Ching-te took office as Taiwan&#8217;s new president, a man Beijing detests as a &#8220;separatist&#8221;. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has denounced Lai&#8217;s inauguration speech on Monday, in which he&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39451","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\/39451","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=39451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39453,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39451\/revisions\/39453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}