{"id":29420,"date":"2019-01-16T18:23:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T18:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29420"},"modified":"2019-01-16T18:23:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T18:23:19","slug":"china-will-do-whatever-it-takes-to-defend-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29420","title":{"rendered":"China will do &#8216;whatever it takes&#8217; to defend Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Over the last few years China has made a series of ambitious military reforms and acquired new technology as it aims to improve its ability to fight regional conflicts over places like Taiwan, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dia.mil\/Portals\/27\/Documents\/News\/Military%20Power%20Publications\/China_Military_Power_FINAL_5MB_20190103.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a new report from the US Defense Intelligence Agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;Beijing&#8217;s longstanding interest to eventually compel Taiwan&#8217;s reunification with the mainland and deter any attempt by Taiwan to declare independence has served as the primary driver for China&#8217;s military modernization,&#8221; said the agency&#8217;s report, titled &#8220;China&#8217;s Military Power.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The report, which was published Tuesday, added that &#8220;Beijing&#8217;s anticipation that foreign forces would intervene in a Taiwan scenario led the (People&#8217;s Liberation Army) to develop a range of systems to deter and deny foreign regional force projection.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Over the last few years China has made a series of ambitious military reforms and acquired new technology as it aims to improve its ability to fight regional conflicts over places like Taiwan, according to a new report from the US Defense Intelligence Agency.&#8221;Beijing&#8217;s longstanding interest to eventually compel Taiwan&#8217;s reunification with the mainland and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}