{"id":3487,"date":"2018-05-07T22:14:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T22:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3487"},"modified":"2018-05-07T22:14:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T22:14:15","slug":"the-real-war-threat-in-asia-is-over-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/05\/07\/the-real-war-threat-in-asia-is-over-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"THE REAL WAR THREAT IN ASIA IS OVER TAIWAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/Chinas-missile-YJ-18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-559\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/Chinas-missile-YJ-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/Chinas-missile-YJ-18.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/Chinas-missile-YJ-18-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/Chinas-missile-YJ-18-560x303.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/Chinas-missile-YJ-18-260x141.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/Chinas-missile-YJ-18-160x87.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: The National Interest<\/p>\n<p>By Robert E. McCoy<\/p>\n<p>While the media continue to focus on developments from the recent summit between Pyongyang and Seoul and the upcoming meeting between Pyongyang and Washington, Beijing has taken advantage of the diversion to increase pressure on Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping, in a highly-charged speech before the National People\u2019s Congress, warned that Beijing was ready to fight its enemies in a \u201cbloody battle\u201d to regain its past glory and preserve its empire. Subsequently, an editorial in the Global Times, a state-owned but unofficial outlet for ideas that Beijing wishes to float for reaction, said China must prepare for a \u201cdirect military clash in the Taiwan Straits\u201d. These are not just words.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/the-buzz\/forget-north-korea-the-real-war-threat-asia-over-taiwan-25688<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The National Interest By Robert E. McCoy While the media continue to focus on developments from the recent summit between Pyongyang and Seoul and the upcoming meeting between Pyongyang and Washington, Beijing has taken advantage of the diversion to increase pressure on Taiwan. Chinese President Xi Jinping, in a highly-charged speech before the National&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/05\/07\/the-real-war-threat-in-asia-is-over-taiwan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THE REAL WAR THREAT IN ASIA IS OVER TAIWAN<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1226],"class_list":["post-3487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-taiwan","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3488,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions\/3488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}