{"id":196529,"date":"2025-12-07T06:16:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T06:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=196529"},"modified":"2025-12-07T06:16:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T06:16:38","slug":"takaichis-taiwan-talk-risks-an-unwinnable-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=196529","title":{"rendered":"Takaichi\u2019s Taiwan talk risks an unwinnable fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Putting aside the ongoing war of words between Beijing and Tokyo surrounding Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi\u2019s statements on Taiwan last month, there is a simple question that needs answering. Can Japan\u2019s Self-Defence Forces really afford to fight the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) without American military support&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3334783\/takaichis-taiwan-talk-risks-unwinnable-fight?utm_source=rss_feed\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putting aside the ongoing war of words between Beijing and Tokyo surrounding Japanese Prime Minister<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196529-takaichis-taiwan-talk-risks-an-unwinnable-fight.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196529-takaichis-taiwan-talk-risks-an-unwinnable-fight-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196529-takaichis-taiwan-talk-risks-an-unwinnable-fight-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196529-takaichis-taiwan-talk-risks-an-unwinnable-fight-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196529-takaichis-taiwan-talk-risks-an-unwinnable-fight-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196529-takaichis-taiwan-talk-risks-an-unwinnable-fight.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196529-takaichis-taiwan-talk-risks-an-unwinnable-fight.jpg",1280,720,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196529-takaichis-taiwan-talk-risks-an-unwinnable-fight-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196529-takaichis-taiwan-talk-risks-an-unwinnable-fight-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/196529-takaichis-taiwan-talk-risks-an-unwinnable-fight-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/196530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}