{"id":132834,"date":"2025-07-15T10:43:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132834"},"modified":"2025-07-15T10:43:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:43:41","slug":"taiwan-tensions-may-heighten-japan-defence-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=132834","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan tensions may heighten, Japan defence report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostJapan\u2019s defence minister said on Tuesday tensions over Taiwan may heighten as he presented an annual defence white paper that again singled out mainland China as Japan\u2019s \u201cgreatest strategic challenge\u201d.<br \/>\nJapanese Defence Minister Gen Nakatani named China in the opening paragraphs of the report, presented to Japan\u2019s cabinet, declaring Beijing\u2019s military activities to be an \u201cunprecedented\u201d challenge that Japan must counter through national strength and alliances with partner countries.<br \/>\nIt was the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3318315\/taiwan-tensions-may-heighten-beijing-boosts-military-activities-japan-defence-report?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostJapan\u2019s defence minister said on Tuesday tensions over Taiwan may heighten as he presented an annual defence white paper that again singled out mainland&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132834"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}