{"id":4425,"date":"2018-11-08T23:41:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T23:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4425"},"modified":"2018-11-08T23:41:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T23:41:18","slug":"taiwan-will-consider-hosting-us-navy-ships-on-taiping-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/11\/08\/taiwan-will-consider-hosting-us-navy-ships-on-taiping-island\/","title":{"rendered":"TAIWAN WILL CONSIDER HOSTING US NAVY SHIPS ON TAIPING ISLAND"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Source: South China Morning Post<\/p>\n

By Lawrence Chung<\/p>\n

Taiwan \u201cwill consider\u201d a US Navy request should Washington ask to use the largest of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea for regional security purposes, the island\u2019s defence minister said on Monday in response to a series of hypothetical questions from a member of the Legislative Yuan in Taipei.<\/p>\n

Yen De-fa told the opposition Kuomintang\u2019s Johnny Chiang that Taiwan could also allow US warships to dock at Taiping Island, which is under Taipei\u2019s control, for humanitarian operations.<\/p>\n

Beijing views Taiwan \u2013 which broke away after the end of the civil war in 1949 \u2013 as its territory and subject to eventual union, if necessary by force.<\/p>\n

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Source: South China Morning Post By Lawrence Chung Taiwan \u201cwill consider\u201d a US Navy request should Washington ask to use the largest of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea for regional security purposes, the island\u2019s defence minister said on Monday in response to a series of hypothetical questions from a member of the… Continue reading TAIWAN WILL CONSIDER HOSTING US NAVY SHIPS ON TAIPING ISLAND<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425","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=4425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4428,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425\/revisions\/4428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}