{"id":511989,"date":"2022-08-05T09:16:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T03:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=511989"},"modified":"2022-08-05T09:38:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T04:08:19","slug":"taiwan-cancels-flights-as-china-holds-military-drills-upon-pelosi-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/taiwan-cancels-flights-as-china-holds-military-drills-upon-pelosi-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan cancels flights as China holds military drills upon Pelosi visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan cancelled airline flights Thursday as the Chinese navy fired artillery near the island in retaliation for a top American lawmaker&#8217;s visit, but the impact on shipments of processor chips and other goods needed by global industries was unclear.<\/p>\n<p>China ordered ships and planes to avoid the military drills that encircled the self-ruled island, which the mainland&#8217;s ruling Communist Party claims as part of its territory. The Hong Kong newspaper The South China Morning Post called the drills an effective Taiwan blockade.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing announced live-fire exercises after US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived Tuesday for a one-day visit, defying warnings from Beijing. It also banned imports of hundreds of Taiwanese food items including fish, fruit and cookies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan cancelled airline flights Thursday as the Chinese navy fired artillery near the island in retaliation for a top American lawmaker&#8217;s visit, but the impact on shipments of processor chips and other goods needed by global industries was unclear. China ordered ships and planes to avoid the military drills that encircled the self-ruled island, which the mainland&#8217;s ruling Communist Party claims as part of its territory. The Hong Kong newspaper The South China Morning Post called the drills an effective Taiwan blockade. Beijing announced live-fire exercises after US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived Tuesday for a one-day visit, [&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-511989","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\/511989","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=511989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}