{"id":6381,"date":"2021-04-16T08:24:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T08:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=6381"},"modified":"2021-04-16T08:24:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T08:24:34","slug":"beijings-combat-drills-near-taiwan-seen-as-a-message-to-us-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=6381","title":{"rendered":"Beijing\u2019s \u2018combat drills\u2019 near Taiwan seen as a message to US military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostChinese carrier drills and stepped-up incursions into Taiwan\u2019s air defence zone in recent weeks are meant to send a message to Washington to stand down and back off, security sources in Taipei say.The increased activity \u2013 which Beijing, unusually, described as \u201ccombat drills\u201d on Wednesday \u2013 has raised alarm in both Taipei and Washington, though security officials do not see it as a sign of an imminent attack.Rather, according to an official familiar with Taiwan\u2019s security planning, at least\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3129839\/beijings-combat-drills-near-taiwan-seen-message-us-military\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostChinese carrier drills and stepped-up incursions into Taiwan\u2019s air defence zone in recent weeks are meant to send a message to Washington to stand down and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6382,"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\/6381"}],"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=6381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}