{"id":654670,"date":"2021-08-17T12:36:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T16:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=654670"},"modified":"2021-08-17T12:36:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T16:36:43","slug":"china-holds-military-drills-near-taiwan-as-biden-struggles-with-afghanistan-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-holds-military-drills-near-taiwan-as-biden-struggles-with-afghanistan-withdrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"China Holds Military Drills Near Taiwan as Biden Struggles With Afghanistan Withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fchina-holds-military-drills-near-taiwan-as-biden-struggles-with-afghanistan-withdrawal%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=654670&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--><div readability=\"29.197530864198\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Chinese aircraft, warships approach Taiwanese territory<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-950939988-736x432-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-950939988-e1629141314159.jpg 736w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-950939988-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-950939988-768x451.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tChinese fighter jets \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 August 17, 2021 12:20 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"72.835497835498\">\n<p><span>China deployed warships and fighter jets near Taiwan on Tuesday, testing U.S. resolve as the Biden administration struggles to retrieve thousands of Americans who remain in Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Beijing conducted drills <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/world\/articles\/2021-08-17\/china-says-military-drills-near-taiwan-were-response-to-provocations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>intended<\/span><\/a><span> to advance Chinese &#8220;air supremacy&#8221; over Taiwan, according to a Taiwanese defense official. The drills included 11 Chinese aircraft, including advanced fighter jets and nuclear-capable bombers.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The People&#8217;s Liberation Army said it conducted the drills to protect &#8220;China&#8217;s sovereignty.&#8221; The Chinese Communist Party claims Taiwan, an independent country, is a part of China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;[The U.S. and Taiwan] repeatedly colluded in provocation and sent serious wrong signals, severely infringing upon China&#8217;s sovereignty, and severely undermining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait,&#8221; the statement reads. &#8220;This exercise is a necessary action based on the current security situation across the Taiwan Strait and the need to safeguard national sovereignty. It is a solemn response to external interference and provocations by Taiwan independence forces.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The military exercises come after the United States <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-08-04\/first-arms-sale-to-taiwan-by-biden-administration-is-approved\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>approved<\/span><\/a><span> a $750 million arms sale to Taiwan in August. In the wake of a bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan, however, questions have been raised about the Biden administration&#8217;s ability to defend Taiwan from a potential Chinese invasion. The <\/span><i><span>Washington Free Beacon <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/china-touts-u-s-humiliation-in-afghanistan-in-warning-to-taiwan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span> on Monday that Chinese state media are celebrating the United States&#8217; &#8220;humiliation&#8221; in Afghanistan, saying the U.S. military &#8220;won&#8217;t come to help&#8221; Taiwan if China attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Richard Fontaine, the CEO of the Center for a New American Security and an adviser to the Vandenberg Coalition, said the Afghanistan withdrawal raises questions about American military competence in standing up to China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;It will be a field day for the Chinese and Russians and everyone else to show what America has been unable to do,&#8221; Fontaine said. &#8220;This is not our finest hour in terms of showing as a global leader what kind of competence we have.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Chinese aircraft, warships approach Taiwanese territory  Chinese fighter jets \/ Getty Images  Jack Beyrer \u2022 August 17, 2021 12:20 pm China &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654670","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}