{"id":307455,"date":"2019-12-27T10:20:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T04:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=307455"},"modified":"2019-12-27T10:32:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T05:02:59","slug":"newly-commissioned-chinese-aircraft-carrier-sails-through-taiwan-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/newly-commissioned-chinese-aircraft-carrier-sails-through-taiwan-strait\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly commissioned Chinese aircraft carrier sails through Taiwan Strait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A newly commissioned Chinese aircraft carrier sailed through the Taiwan Strait for a second time Thursday, Taipei&#8217;s defence ministry said, just weeks before the island goes to polls to elect a new president. <\/p>\n<p>The ministry said it was fully monitoring the Shandong, China&#8217;s first domestically built carrier, and accompanying ships as they traversed the strait separating China from self-ruled Taiwan. <\/p>\n<p>Taiwan&#8217;s presidential office said in a statement that China had an &#8220;international responsibility&#8221; to contribute to cross-strait and regional peace and welfare. <\/p>\n<p>Last month Beijing confirmed it had sent the new carrier through the strait as part of routine training, sparking concerns from Washington&#8217;s de facto embassy in Taiwan. <\/p>\n<p>At the time, foreign minister Joseph Wu accused China of attempting to intervene in Taiwan&#8217;s elections, saying &#8220;voters won&#8217;t be intimidated&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly commissioned Chinese aircraft carrier sailed through the Taiwan Strait for a second time Thursday, Taipei&#8217;s defence ministry said, just weeks before the island goes to polls to elect a new president. The ministry said it was fully monitoring the Shandong, China&#8217;s first domestically built carrier, and accompanying ships as they traversed the strait separating China from self-ruled Taiwan. Taiwan&#8217;s presidential office said in a statement that China had an &#8220;international responsibility&#8221; to contribute to cross-strait and regional peace and welfare. Last month Beijing confirmed it had sent the new carrier through the strait as part of routine training, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}