{"id":51146,"date":"2026-04-23T09:34:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/taiwan-minister-makes-rare-visit-to-disputed-south-china-sea-island\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:34:24","slug":"taiwan-minister-makes-rare-visit-to-disputed-south-china-sea-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/taiwan-minister-makes-rare-visit-to-disputed-south-china-sea-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan minister makes rare visit to disputed South China Sea island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">A ruling by an international tribunal in 2016 classified Taiping Island as a &#8220;rock&#8221; under the United Nations&#8217; Convention on the Law of the Sea, which gives Taiwan rights to resources for only 12 nautical miles around it \u2013 in contrast to 200 nautical miles, if it were deemed an &#8220;island&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c87wzpey8jlo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ruling by an international tribunal in 2016 classified Taiping Island as a &#8220;rock&#8221; under the United Nations&#8217; Convention on the Law of the Sea, which gives Taiwan rights to resources for only 12 nautical miles around it \u2013 in contrast to 200 nautical miles, if it were deemed an &#8220;island&#8221;. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51148,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51146\/revisions\/51148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}