{"id":1148,"date":"2025-10-27T13:24:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T14:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2025-10-28T12:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:45:17","slug":"china-claims-bombers-flew-near-taiwan-ahead-of-trump-xi-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/27\/china-claims-bombers-flew-near-taiwan-ahead-of-trump-xi-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"China claims bombers flew near Taiwan ahead of Trump-Xi meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Chinese bombers conducting \u201cconfrontation drills\u201d recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/asia\/trump-convinces-china-abandon-force-taiwan-deserves-nobel-prize-taiwan-rcna236078\">flew near\u00a0Taiwan<\/a>, Beijing\u2019s state media claimed Sunday, just days ahead of a meeting between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/asia\/hyundai-raid-south-korea-immigration-visas-rcna230270\">in\u00a0South Korea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Without giving a date or specific location for the war games, the Weibo account for Chinese state television\u2019s military channel said \u201cseveral J-10 fighters flew in combat formation to a designated target airspace, and multiple H-6K bombers went to the waters and airspace around Taiwan island to carry out simulated confrontation drills,\u201d as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/ahead-trump-xi-meeting-china-says-bombers-flew-near-taiwan-2025-10-27\/\">reported by\u00a0Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan, meanwhile, has called the Chinese report a propaganda ploy, with the island\u2019s defense ministry calling the report \u201cclearly a public-opinion operation aimed at intimidation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call on our citizens to remain united in the face of such cognitive operations, to uphold freedom and democracy, and to defend our homeland together,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>And on Monday morning, Taiwan\u2019s defense ministry reported that in the past 24 hours, it tracked only four Chinese military aircraft flying near the territory, including three fighter jets and one support aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>But China\u2019s state television report played a video of bombs being dropped, claiming the coast of Taiwan can be seen even though the image is not clear.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Xi, who sees Taiwan as Chinese sovereign territory and has pledged to reunify with Taipei, by force if necessary, is set to meet with Trump later this week in South Korea as the American president travels through Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has insisted the U.S. and China will \u201ccome away with\u201d a trade deal following the meeting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State\u00a0Marco Rubio\u00a0said Sunday that Taiwan should not be worried about the talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Chinese bombers conducting \u201cconfrontation drills\u201d recently flew near\u00a0Taiwan, Beijing\u2019s state media claimed Sunday, just days ahead of a meeting between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in\u00a0South Korea. Without giving a date or specific location for the war games, the Weibo account for Chinese state television\u2019s military channel said \u201cseveral J-10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}