{"id":343620,"date":"2026-05-14T18:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/how-close-are-china-to-invading-taiwan\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T18:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:00:19","slug":"how-close-are-china-to-invading-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/how-close-are-china-to-invading-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"How close are China to invading Taiwan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/HkwiXYDcgH4\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"How close are China to invading Taiwan?\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HkwiXYDcgH4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>ITV News Asia Correspondent Debi Edward examines why Taiwan matters to Beijing, what an invasion could look like, and what could happen globally in the latest episode of What You Need to Know &#8211; that\u2019s available now on YouTube and ITVX.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITV News Asia Correspondent Debi Edward examines why Taiwan matters to Beijing, what an invasion could look like, and what could happen globally in the latest episode of What You Need to Know &#8211; that\u2019s available now on YouTube and ITVX. \u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj \u2022 Get breaking news and more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":343621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128812],"tags":[132387,128968,128917],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-343620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-itv-news","tag-asia","tag-correspondent","tag-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How close are China to invading Taiwan? | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch How close are China to invading Taiwan? for free, here on News ISC. 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