{"id":1467,"date":"2014-01-02T10:22:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T09:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2014-01-02T10:22:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T09:22:21","slug":"chinese-cook-rescued-by-japan-after-trying-to-fly-balloon-to-disputed-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/2014\/01\/02\/chinese-cook-rescued-by-japan-after-trying-to-fly-balloon-to-disputed-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese cook rescued by Japan after trying to fly balloon to disputed islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"137117dde994ef920366dbf34e4e7cff\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2865779868887008\";\r\n\/* Android box *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1345074415\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Coastguard picks up 35-year-old whose balloon crashed 20km from islands at the centre of dispute between Japan and China.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"The chinese balloon after crashing into the ocean. \" src=\"http:\/\/ballon.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/A-tengerben-landolt-a-k%C3%ADnai-f%C3%A9rfi-ballonja.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"625\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Chinese cook who tried to fly a hot-air balloon to islands claimed by both China and Japan has been rescued by Japan&#8217;s coastguard after crashing into the sea.<\/p><!--CusAds0-->\n<p>Xu Shuaijun, 35, crashed on Wednesday after hitting turbulence as he approached the islands, known in Japan as Senkaku and in China as Diayou, the coastguard said.<\/p>\n<p>The coastguard received a missing-person report from Taiwanese officials, and a coastguard helicopter spotted Xu about 20km (12 miles) from the islands, it said.<\/p>\n<p>He was picked up by a boat and later handed over to a Chinese patrol ship, according to the coastguard. His life was not in danger, although other details were not available.<\/p>\n<p>The islands have been a sore point in bilateral relations for years, and nationalists from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have occasionally tried to sail to them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small\"><em>theguardian.com<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coastguard picks up 35-year-old whose balloon crashed 20km from islands at the centre of dispute between Japan and China. A Chinese cook who tried to fly a hot-air balloon to islands claimed by both China and Japan has been rescued by Japan&#8217;s coastguard after crashing into the sea. Xu Shuaijun, 35, crashed on Wednesday after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,28,39],"tags":[80,85,146],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balloon.hu\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}