{"id":2170,"date":"2018-10-25T21:04:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T21:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/?p=2170"},"modified":"2018-10-25T21:04:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T21:04:50","slug":"china-concerned-about-us-warships-in-taiwan-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2018\/10\/25\/china-concerned-about-us-warships-in-taiwan-strait\/","title":{"rendered":"China concerned about US warships in Taiwan Strait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Foreign Ministry says it has expressed serious concern to the United States after US warships passed through the strait between Taiwan and China.<\/p>\n<p>The US Pacific Fleet sent 2 warships through the Taiwan Strait on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying said in a news conference on Tuesday that the US naval operation was a provocation against China.<\/p>\n<p>Hua said the Taiwan issue is the most important and sensitive one in China-US relations. She added that China urges the US to cautiously and appropriately deal with the issue to promote peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.<\/p>\n<p>China has flown bombers near Taiwan in an apparent bid to pressure president Tsai Ing-wen, who Beijing considers an advocate of the island&#8217;s independence.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has been placing importance on Taiwan amid growing friction with Beijing over issues that include trade and China&#8217;s growing maritime activities in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The Global Times, which is affiliated with China&#8217;s Communist Party, said in an editorial on Tuesday that the US naval operation is aimed at continuing the pressure on China.<\/p>\n<p>From &#8211; NHK World<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Foreign Ministry says it has expressed serious concern to the United States after US warships passed through the strait between Taiwan and China. The US Pacific Fleet sent 2 warships through the Taiwan Strait on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170","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\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2171,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions\/2171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}