{"id":3919,"date":"2020-02-25T20:47:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T20:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/?p=3919"},"modified":"2020-02-25T20:47:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T20:47:17","slug":"china-crossing-into-taiwan-airspace-was-completely-inappropriate-says-state-department-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2020\/02\/25\/china-crossing-into-taiwan-airspace-was-completely-inappropriate-says-state-department-official\/","title":{"rendered":"China crossing into Taiwan airspace was \u2018completely inappropriate,\u2019 says State Department official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAbsolutely it concerns us\u201d said R. Clarke Cooper, assistant secretary for political-military affairs at the U.S. Department of State. \u201cIt was completely inappropriate of China to take such an aggressive act,\u201d Cooper added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday, Chinese jets crossed an unofficial middle line in the Taiwan Strait, just a day after Chinese fighters and bombers flew around the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army said on Monday that the drills were aimed at improving combat capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China claims self-ruled Taiwan as its territory that must one day be reunited with the mainland and Beijing has never renounced the use of force to take Taiwan by force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAbsolutely it concerns us\u201d said R. Clarke Cooper, assistant secretary for political-military affairs at the U.S. Department of State. \u201cIt was completely inappropriate of China to take such an aggressive act,\u201d Cooper added. On Monday, Chinese jets crossed an unofficial middle line in the Taiwan Strait, just a day after Chinese fighters and bombers flew around the island. China\u2019s People\u2019s&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2020\/02\/25\/china-crossing-into-taiwan-airspace-was-completely-inappropriate-says-state-department-official\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919","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\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3920,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions\/3920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}