{"id":15057,"date":"2024-02-27T08:59:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T08:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=15057"},"modified":"2024-02-27T08:59:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T08:59:31","slug":"five-chinese-guard-ships-enter-taiwan-frontline-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/27\/five-chinese-guard-ships-enter-taiwan-frontline-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Chinese Guard Ships Enter Taiwan Frontline Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amid a continued rise in tensions with Beijing, a Taiwan minister said on Tuesday that Five Chinese coast guard ships entered prohibited or restricted waters around Taiwan\u2019s frontline islands of Kinmen on Monday but left shortly after being warned away.<br \/>\nTaiwan, which China claims as its own territory despite the island\u2019s rejection, has been wary of efforts by Beijing to ramp up pressure on Taipei following last month\u2019s election of Lai Ching-te as president. Beijing considers Lai a separatist.<br \/>\nTaiwan has a large military garrison on Kinmen, the scene of frequent fighting during the height of the Cold War, but Taiwan\u2019s coast guard patrols its waters.<br \/>\nTaiwan\u2019s defense ministry said last week it is not bolstering its forces on the islands close to China, which include the Matsu archipelago up the coast from Kinmen.<br \/>\nTaiwan Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng, also speaking at parliament, said he hoped what was happening around Kinmen would not escalate and would be \u201csmoothly handled.\u201d<br \/>\nSix Chinese coast guard officers last week boarded a Taiwanese tourist boat carrying 11 crew and 23 passengers to check its route plan, certificate and crew licenses, leaving about half an hour later, Taiwan\u2019s coast guard said.<br \/>\nChina recognizes no sovereignty claims by Taiwan, and has accused Taiwan of acting \u201cmaliciously\u201d by causing the deaths of the two Chinese nationals on the fishing boat, which had gotten too close to one of Kinmen\u2019s heavily fortified islets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 Amid a continued rise in tensions with Beijing, a Taiwan minister said on Tuesday that Five Chinese coast guard ships entered prohibited or restricted waters around Taiwan\u2019s frontline islands of Kinmen on Monday but left shortly after being warned away. Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory despite the island\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15059,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15057\/revisions\/15059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}