{"id":1390,"date":"2022-08-10T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2022-08-15T08:48:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T08:48:06","slug":"china-demonstrates-how-to-repeatedly-miss-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/china-demonstrates-how-to-repeatedly-miss-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"China demonstrates how to repeatedly miss Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Taiwan (<strong>the independent country of)<\/strong> &#8211; <\/strong>China finally admitted defeat today and called off its invasion of the island nation of Taiwan after failing to land a single hit. The Chinese military have admitted that he invasion attempt was short-sighted and will recalibrate their precision missiles, hopeful they might land a lucky hit next time the <s>Chinese Communist Party needs to create theatre for their domestic audience<\/s> a high-profile Western politician visits the tiny non-province-of-China island nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An anonymous source within the Chinese military placed the blame squarely on US, <em>&#8220;our missiles are direct copies of American designs, the problem isn&#8217;t our copying, it&#8217;s that American technology isn&#8217;t as capable as they pretended it is. If the missiles aren&#8217;t hitting their target, they&#8217;re going to have to do better, so we can copy those improvements as well. As you can see, it&#8217;s not us who failed, but the imperialist forces of those American capitalists!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sinking-boat-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1392\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sinking-boat-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sinking-boat-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sinking-boat-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sinking-boat-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sinking-boat-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption><em>The Chinese Navy stokes fear amongst Taiwan&#8217;s western allies.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Adding to the embarrassment, the Chinese Navy fared no better, not a single ship managing to find their way across the 100 mile straight that separates the Chinese mainland from the totally-not-a-province Taiwan. A navy spokesman confirmed they were unsuccessful in reaching Taiwan, but were sure the island nation was out there somewhere, and would continue looking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like the little-engine-that-could, we&#8217;re sure the Chinese military will get there eventually if they keep trying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan (the independent country of) &#8211; China finally admitted defeat today and called off its invasion of the island nation of Taiwan after failing to land a single hit. The Chinese military have admitted that he invasion attempt was short-sighted and will recalibrate their precision missiles, hopeful they might land a lucky hit next time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1391,"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,"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406,"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/1406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foxthink.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}