{"id":87036,"date":"2019-04-04T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=87036 "},"modified":"2019-04-04T04:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T04:15:00","slug":"87036-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=87036","title":{"rendered":"China-Taiwan tensions grow after warplane incursion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Is a new crisis between China and Taiwan looming?<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><\/div><div>How do these growing tensions relate to the deepening differences between Washington and Beijing?<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><\/div><div>And has President Trump contributed by undermining the long-standing &#8220;One China&#8221; policy pursued by his predecessors that was the foundation of the rapprochement between China and the US in the late 1970s?<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><\/div><div>The incursion by Chinese warplanes on Sunday, crossing a maritime line separating Chinese and Taiwanese waters, is the most serious such incident for years. The duration of the incursion &#8211; some ten minutes &#8211; suggests it was no mere navigational mistake.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><\/div><div>Taiwan scrambled aircraft to intercept the intruders. Taiwan&#8217;s President Tsai Ing-wen has called for Chinese warplanes that cross the maritime line to be &#8220;forcefully expelled&#8221;.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><\/div><div>Taiwan &#8211; of course &#8211; is seen by Beijing as an inseparable part of China; its separation from the motherland merely a temporary phenomenon.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><\/div><div>China&#8217;s President Xi Jinping warned at the start of this year that unification remained China&#8217;s ultimate goal irrespective of the differences between their two political systems. He made it clear that China would not &#8220;abandon the use of force&#8221; and that it retained the option &#8220;of taking all necessary measures.&#8221;<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-47786324\">Read more\u00a0<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;Is a new crisis between China and Taiwan looming?&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;How do these growing tensions relate to the deepening differences between Washington and Beijing?&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}