{"id":1788606,"date":"2022-12-28T08:04:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T13:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1788606"},"modified":"2022-12-28T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T17:05:00","slug":"taiwan-plans-to-extend-compulsory-military-service-due-to-china-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taiwan-plans-to-extend-compulsory-military-service-due-to-china-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"China Threatens Taiwan, Taiwan Planned to Extend Compulsory Military Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftaiwan-plans-to-extend-compulsory-military-service-due-to-china-threat%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1788606&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Due to China&#8217;s growing threats, Taiwan announced Tuesday that it will increase its mandatory military service for men from 4 months to 1 year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China&#8217;s expansion continues to impact the international order, threatens regional peace and stability, and affects cross-strait relations,&#8221; Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.tw\/News\/27206\">press conference<\/a>Translated from the English<\/p>\n<p>Since 2013, men over 18 must serve four months in Taiwan\u2019s military. This includes five weeks basic training. Prior to this, conscripts could have served for up to two decades. Service members will have to serve for one year and receive eight weeks of basic training starting in 2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/27\/taiwan-extends-compulsory-military-service-amid-mounting-tensions-with-china\">The Guardian reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new plan the monthly pay of conscription soldiers will quadruple to $211 to $856.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only by preparing for war can we avoid war,&#8221; Tsai said.<\/p>\n<p>China was founded in <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/world\/asia\/us-sends-aircraft-carrier-group-taiwan-waters-amid-chinese-drills-invasion-fears\">holding<\/a> Drills were conducted in Taiwan&#8217;s waters, and joint military exercises were held with <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/world\/asia\/russia-hold-join-military-exercises-china\">Russia<\/a> August\u00a0Xi Jinping, the Chinese President, has <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/elections\/chinese-leader-vows-reunify-taiwan-force-if-necessary\">vowed<\/a> to unify the Communist country and the self-governing islands nation.\u00a0Chief of U.S. In October, Chief of U.S. Operations Adm. Mike Gilday warned that China might <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/world\/asia\/china-may-invade-taiwan-within-months-top-us-navy-official-warns\">invade<\/a> Taiwan in a matter of months<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to China&#8217;s growing threats, Taiwan announced Tuesday that it will increase its mandatory military service for men from 4 months to 1 year.\u00a0 &#8220;China&#8217;s expansion continues to impact the international order, threatens regional peace and stability, and affects cross-strait relations,&#8221; Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said at a press conferenceTranslated from the English Since 2013, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1788609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,4501,12062,9036,4505,7764,3819,4400,9105,4622],"class_list":["post-1788606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-china","tag-compulsory","tag-extend","tag-military","tag-planned","tag-report","tag-service","tag-taiwan","tag-threatens"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1788609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}