{"id":1380,"date":"2018-03-08T03:56:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T03:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2018-03-08T03:56:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T03:56:45","slug":"taiwan-to-boost-defense-to-repost-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2018\/03\/08\/taiwan-to-boost-defense-to-repost-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan to boost defense to repost to china"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan will look to its domestic arms industry as well as foreign suppliers to respond to China\u2019s continuing military buildup, but has no interest in engaging in an arms race with its cross-strait rival, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday. China recently announced its rise in their military budget, this is the second country to spend this much money on their military behind the United States. Although,\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Taiwan has no intention of getting involved in an arms race with China, or with any of their neighboring countries. However, we expect to strengthen our capabilities in self-developing arms, including locally built vessels and aircraft, or even information and communication warfare. Taiwan wants to\u00a0<\/span>play<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u00a0it safe, just incase China tries to do anything to put them in a bad position. &#8220;China regards Taiwan as Chinese territory to be eventually brought under its control, by force if necessary.&#8221; With that\u00a0<\/span>being<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u00a0said, considering the size of Taiwan and the size of their military, I do not believe Taiwan&#8217;s military would be anything compared to China&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span>military. &#8220;Under China-imposed diplomatic isolation, Taiwan has few avenues for purchasing arms abroad apart from the United States. which despite only having unofficial ties with the self-governing island democracy, is legally bound to ensure it has a credible defense.&#8221; Taiwan has started to build new training air crafts, and possible ships and submarines. With reading all of this, and kind of hearing both sides, I understand why Taiwan wants to strengthen their military. They are trying to become independent and are still recognizing that they are on Chinese territory.<\/p>\n<div id=\"articleContentBodySecondBlock\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan will look to its domestic arms industry as well as foreign suppliers to respond to China\u2019s continuing military buildup, but has no interest in engaging in an arms race with its cross-strait rival, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday. China recently announced its rise in their military budget, this is the second country to spend this much money on their&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2018\/03\/08\/taiwan-to-boost-defense-to-repost-to-china\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}