{"id":149969,"date":"2026-04-19T15:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149969"},"modified":"2026-04-19T15:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:55:08","slug":"is-japans-treaty-day-taiwan-strait-warship-transit-a-new-flashpoint-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149969","title":{"rendered":"Is Japan\u2019s treaty-day Taiwan Strait warship transit a new flashpoint with China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTensions in East Asia reached a fresh peak with a Japanese warship\u2019s transit of the Taiwan Strait on a historically freighted date for China.<br \/>\nAccording to the PLA Eastern Theatre Command, the Japanese destroyer JS Ikazuchi spent 14 hours navigating the sensitive waterway on Friday, the anniversary of the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki or Treaty of Maguan, an unequal treaty that forced the then-ruling Qing dynasty administration to cede Taiwan to Japanese colonial rule.<br \/>\nIn a commentary on Saturday,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3350646\/japans-treaty-day-taiwan-strait-warship-transit-new-flashpoint-china?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 PostTensions in East Asia reached a fresh peak with a Japanese warship\u2019s transit of the Taiwan Strait on a historically freighted date for China.&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\/149969"}],"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=149969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}