{"id":31927,"date":"2020-08-24T22:01:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T16:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=31927"},"modified":"2020-08-24T22:01:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T16:31:46","slug":"chinese-soldiers-write-goodbye-letters-to-spouses-amid-war-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=31927","title":{"rendered":"Chinese soldiers write goodbye letters to spouses amid war fears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>PLA soldiers asked what they would write if war broke out the next day: TVBS<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Taipei<\/strong>: China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) asked soldiers in the province of Fujian, opposite Taiwan, to write a goodbye letter to their spouses, giving rise to mutterings that war is near, cable station TVBS reported Friday (Aug. 21).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the report, soldiers were asked what they would write if war broke out the next day. One responded that since he had chosen to wear the uniform, he would follow orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Others told the \u201corganization\u201d not to worry, the \u201cmotherland\u201d not to worry, and the people not to worry, because they would \u201creturn in glory,\u201d according to a PLA video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, Chinese fighter jets and warships have frequently approached Taiwan, with the warplanes increasingly crossing into the island nation\u2019s Air Defense Identification Zone before being warned off by Taiwanese jets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The impact of the virus and unprecedented floods across China have led to speculation that the communist regime might try to provoke a confrontation with Taiwan in order to distract the public from its own failings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taiwannews.com.tw\/en\/news\/3992166\">Agencies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLA soldiers asked what they would write if war broke out the next day: TVBS Taipei: China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) asked soldiers in the province of Fujian, opposite Taiwan, to write a goodbye letter to their spouses, giving rise to mutterings that war is near, cable station TVBS reported Friday (Aug. 21). According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}