{"id":40225,"date":"2019-07-24T15:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T15:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40225"},"modified":"2019-07-24T15:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T15:22:27","slug":"chinas-military-warns-against-growing-threat-from-taiwan-separatists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40225","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s military warns against growing threat from Taiwan &#8216;separatists&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Beijing (CNN)<\/cite>China has warned against what it describes as a growing threat from &#8220;separatists&#8221; in Taiwan, and said it would not rule out using force against the self-governed island Beijing regards as part of its territory. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In a national defense white paper released Wednesday, China took aim at what it considers pro-independence or separatist forces in the far western region of Xinjiang, Tibet and Taiwan, claiming they were a threat to national security and social stability.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In particular, the paper accused Taiwan&#8217;s democratically-elected government of &#8220;pursuing a path of separatism&#8221; by pushing for &#8220;gradual independence,&#8221; warning that China &#8220;must and will be reunited.&#8221; <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing (CNN)China has warned against what it describes as a growing threat from &#8220;separatists&#8221; in Taiwan, and said it would not rule out using force against the self-governed island Beijing regards as part of its territory. In a national defense white paper released Wednesday, China took aim at what it considers pro-independence or separatist forces&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40225","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\/40225","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=40225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}