{"id":156891,"date":"2026-09-01T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T22:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156891"},"modified":"2026-09-01T22:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T22:00:12","slug":"mainland-china-stepping-up-preparations-for-taiwan-blockade-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156891","title":{"rendered":"Mainland China stepping up preparations for Taiwan blockade, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTaiwan\u2019s defence ministry has warned that the People\u2019s Liberation Army is stepping up its preparations for a blockade of the island, adding that it is sharpening its plans to break such a cordon in response.<br \/>\nThe assessment was made in the ministry\u2019s \u201c2026 China Military Power Report\u201d, which was submitted to the legislature this week along with its five-year force development plan and next year\u2019s proposed defence budget.<br \/>\nThe report said recent PLA exercises were increasingly focused on the \u201cjoint&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3366011\/mainland-china-stepping-preparations-taiwan-blockade-report-says?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 PostTaiwan\u2019s defence ministry has warned that the People\u2019s Liberation Army is stepping up its preparations for a blockade of the island, adding that it&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\/156891"}],"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=156891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}