{"id":12906,"date":"2020-01-14T14:30:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T05:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/14\/beijing-says-taiwans-unification-with-china-is-inevitable-despite-election-result"},"modified":"2020-01-14T14:30:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T05:30:47","slug":"beijing-says-taiwans-unification-with-china-is-inevitable-despite-election-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12906","title":{"rendered":"Beijing says Taiwan&#8217;s unification with China is &#8216;inevitable&#8217; despite election result"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After re-election of Tsai Ing-Wen, who vowed to protect the country from China, the foreign minister pushes back<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has said that anyone seeking to keep Taiwan separate from China would \u201cleave a stink for 10,000 years\u201d in its strongest remarks since the re-election of Tsai Ing-Wen, who opposes unification with China.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday while on a tour in Africa, the foreign minister, Wang Yi, said: \u201cThe unification of the two sides of the strait is a historical inevitability,\u201d Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/14\/beijing-says-taiwans-unification-with-china-is-inevitable-despite-election-result\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After re-election of Tsai Ing-Wen, who vowed to protect the country from China, the foreign minister pushes backBeijing has said that anyone seeking to keep Taiwan separate from China would \u201cleave a stink for 10,000 years\u201d in its strongest remarks sinc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12907,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12906\/revisions\/12907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}