{"id":21395,"date":"2026-02-09T01:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T01:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21395"},"modified":"2026-02-09T01:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T01:42:14","slug":"taiwan-is-buying-himars-to-have-mobile-long-range-artillery-to-strike-an-invading-chinese-beachhead-ships-and-chinese-naval-facilities-across-the-strait-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21395","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan is buying HIMARS to have mobile long range artillery to strike an invading Chinese beachhead, ships, and Chinese naval facilities across the strait in China."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The US is stretched between Iran and Taiwan, partly because of navy resources used to quarantine Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A &quot;Taiwan Missile Crisis&quot; in the Making? Inside Taipei&#039;s Forward Deployment Plans\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8GWJHp_yHo8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Taiwan is buying HIMARS to have mobile long range artillery to strike an invading Chinese beachhead, ships, and Chinese naval facilities across the strait in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US is stretched between Iran and Taiwan, partly because of navy resources used to quarantine Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A &quot;Taiwan Missile Crisis&quot; in the Making? Inside Taipei&#039;s Forward Deployment Plans\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8GWJHp_yHo8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan is buying HIMARS to have mobile long range artillery to strike an invading Chinese beachhead, ships, and Chinese naval facilities across the strait in China. <\/p>\n<p>The US is stretched between Iran and Taiwan, partly because of navy resources used to quarantine Venezuela. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8GWJHp_yHo8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1651,729,89,1915,272,355,314,259,338,1952,333,1055],"class_list":["post-21395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-artillery","tag-asia","tag-china","tag-east-asia","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-military","tag-missiles","tag-rockets","tag-taiwan","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21396,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21395\/revisions\/21396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}