{"id":18465,"date":"2020-05-20T14:14:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T05:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/20\/taiwan-president-hits-back-at-china-amid-covid-19-success"},"modified":"2020-05-20T14:14:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T05:14:38","slug":"taiwan-president-hits-back-at-china-amid-covid-19-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18465","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan president hits back at China amid Covid-19 success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In her inauguration speech, Tsai Ing-wen says Taiwan will never accept Chinese rule<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan will not accept attempts by China to \u201cdowngrade\u201d its status, its president has said in an inauguration speech that celebrated the island\u2019s successful fight against the coronavirus and pledged to stand up to pressure from Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Voters handed Dr Tsai Ing-wen a second term with a landslide win in January, a vocal rebuke of Beijing\u2019s ongoing campaign to isolate the island.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/20\/taiwan-president-hits-back-at-china-amid-covid-19-success\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her inauguration speech, Tsai Ing-wen says Taiwan will never accept Chinese ruleTaiwan will not accept attempts by China to \u201cdowngrade\u201d its status, its president has said in an inauguration speech that celebrated the island\u2019s successful fight agains&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1321,"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":[41,50,1069,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","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\/18465","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\/1321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18466,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18465\/revisions\/18466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}