{"id":14089,"date":"2021-07-06T07:23:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T07:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=14089"},"modified":"2021-07-06T07:23:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T07:23:04","slug":"aso-walks-back-claim-japan-would-join-us-in-defence-of-taiwan-if-mainland-chinese-forces-invade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=14089","title":{"rendered":"Aso walks back claim Japan would join US in defence of Taiwan if mainland Chinese forces invade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTaro Aso, Japan\u2019s deputy prime minister, on Tuesday appeared to walk back comments he had made the previous day suggesting that Japan\u2019s military would be deployed to assist the United States in the event mainland Chinese forces invaded Taiwan.Speaking on Monday at a political fundraising event in Tokyo, Aso said aggression against Taiwan could be interpreted as a \u201cthreat to Japan\u2019s survival\u201d and lead to the deployment of the Self-Defence Forces to exercise collective self-defence, the term in\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3139995\/aso-walks-back-claim-japan-would-join-us-defence-taiwan-if?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTaro Aso, Japan\u2019s deputy prime minister, on Tuesday appeared to walk back comments he had made the previous day suggesting that Japan\u2019s military would&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14090,"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\/14089"}],"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=14089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}