{"id":12941,"date":"2020-01-15T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T06:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/15\/tsai-ing-wen-says-china-must-face-reality-of-taiwans-independence"},"modified":"2020-01-15T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T06:18:00","slug":"tsai-ing-wen-says-china-must-face-reality-of-taiwans-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12941","title":{"rendered":"Tsai Ing-wen says China must &#8216;face reality&#8217; of Taiwan&#8217;s independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has repeatedly said that it will bring Taiwan under its authority, but president says election result shows citizens don\u2019t agree<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s president Tsai Ing-wen has called on China to \u201cface reality\u201d and \u201creview\u201d its current policy toward the de facto nation that Beijing claims is part of its territory.<\/p>\n<p>Tsai, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/11\/taiwan-re-elects-tsai-ing-wen-as-president-in-clear-message-to-china\">won re-election in a landslide victory<\/a> on Saturday, told reporters: \u201cWe hope China can thoroughly understand the opinion and will expressed by Taiwanese people in this election and review their current policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/15\/tsai-ing-wen-says-china-must-face-reality-of-taiwans-independence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has repeatedly said that it will bring Taiwan under its authority, but president says election result shows citizens don\u2019t agreeTaiwan\u2019s president Tsai Ing-wen has called on China to \u201cface reality\u201d and \u201creview\u201d its current policy toward the de fa&#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-12941","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\/12941","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=12941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12942,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12941\/revisions\/12942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}