{"id":21571,"date":"2026-02-20T18:53:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21571"},"modified":"2026-02-20T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:54:00","slug":"chinas-military-countdown-to-taiwan-war-capability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21571","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Military Countdown to Taiwan War Capability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>China is planning to be prepared to militarily take Taiwan, by blockade or invasion, by 2027. This plan includes the ability to hit American bases in the region, knockout American infrastructure with cyber, and to quickly invade Taiwan if invasion is the choice. China regularly operates in Taiwanese waters to lull Taiwan and others into not suspecting the real attack.<\/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=\"China&#039;s Military Countdown to Taiwan War Capability\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pqVmmB1DmRY?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>China is planning to be prepared to militarily take Taiwan, by blockade or invasion, by 2027. This plan includes the ability to hit American bases in the region, knockout American infrastructure with cyber, and to quickly invade Taiwan if invasion is the choice. China regularly operates in Taiwanese waters to lull Taiwan and others into not suspecting the real attack. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pqVmmB1DmRY<\/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":[729,89,552,1915,272,355,314,259,333,619,158,1055],"class_list":["post-21571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-asia","tag-china","tag-conflict","tag-east-asia","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-military","tag-taiwan","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21571","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=21571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21572,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21571\/revisions\/21572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}