{"id":141361,"date":"2025-11-27T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T22:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141361"},"modified":"2025-11-27T22:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T22:00:11","slug":"taiwans-william-lai-accused-of-stoking-fear-with-2027-countdown-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141361","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan\u2019s William Lai accused of stoking fear with 2027 countdown confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostOpposition critics have accused Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te of stoking fear on the island with his suggestion that Beijing could be preparing to take Taiwan by force by 2027.<br \/>\nThey also said that Lai\u2019s attempt to justify a massive increase in defence spending was nudging Taiwan towards a wartime footing without consensus or clarity.<br \/>\nThe controversy erupted after Lai told a press conference on Wednesday that Beijing was pursuing a goal to \u201ccomplete unification with Taiwan by force by&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3334398\/taiwans-william-lai-accused-stoking-fear-2027-countdown-confusion-and-defence-push?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 PostOpposition critics have accused Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te of stoking fear on the island with his suggestion that Beijing could be preparing to&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\/141361"}],"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=141361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}