{"id":374484,"date":"2020-09-21T12:20:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T06:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=374484"},"modified":"2020-09-21T13:23:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T07:53:07","slug":"taiwan-scrambles-jets-for-second-day-as-chinese-jets-buzz-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/taiwan-scrambles-jets-for-second-day-as-chinese-jets-buzz-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan scrambles jets for second day as Chinese jets buzz island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taipei: Taiwan said on Saturday it scrambled jets in response to the approach of Chinese jets for the second day in a row, escalating tensions further as a senior U.S. official was on the island for talks. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwelve J-16 fighters, two J-10 fighters, two J-11 fighters, two H-6 bombers and one Y-8 ASW crossed the midline of the #TaiwanStrait and entered #Taiwan\u2019s southwest ADIZ,\u201d Taiwan\u2019s defence ministry said in a statement, referring to its air defence identification zone. <\/p>\n<p>It said Taiwan\u2019s air force \u201cscrambled fighters, and deployed air defense missile system to monitor the activities.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen pledged deeper ties with the United States at a dinner for a visiting senior State Department official, on the same day China sent 18 fighter jets to harry the island to express its anger at the trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taipei: Taiwan said on Saturday it scrambled jets in response to the approach of Chinese jets for the second day in a row, escalating tensions further as a senior U.S. official was on the island for talks. \u201cTwelve J-16 fighters, two J-10 fighters, two J-11 fighters, two H-6 bombers and one Y-8 ASW crossed the midline of the #TaiwanStrait and entered #Taiwan\u2019s southwest ADIZ,\u201d Taiwan\u2019s defence ministry said in a statement, referring to its air defence identification zone. It said Taiwan\u2019s air force \u201cscrambled fighters, and deployed air defense missile system to monitor the activities.\u201d Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen pledged [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374484","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=374484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}