{"id":21558,"date":"2020-08-10T14:50:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T05:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/10\/us-health-secretary-praises-taiwans-covid-19-response-during-rare-high-level-visit"},"modified":"2020-08-10T14:50:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T05:50:04","slug":"us-health-secretary-praises-taiwans-covid-19-response-during-rare-high-level-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21558","title":{"rendered":"US health secretary praises Taiwan&#8217;s Covid-19 response during rare high-level visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Azar is the most senior US official to visit Taipei in 40 years, threatening to escalate US-China tensions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/mar\/14\/coronavirus-live-updates-uk-us-australia-italy-europe-school-shutdown-sport-events-cancelled-latest-update-news\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US health secretary, Alex Azar, has met with Taiwan\u2019s president, Tsai Ing-wen, in the highest-level US visit in more than four decades, pledging \u201cstrong support and friendship\u201d from president Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting in Taipei on Monday threatened to escalate worsening tensions between the Washington and Beijing, the latter of whom\u2019s government claims Taiwan is part of the People\u2019s Republic of China, taking issue with any acknowledgement of Taiwan\u2019s status as a sovereign state.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/10\/us-health-secretary-praises-taiwans-covid-19-response-during-rare-high-level-visit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Azar is the most senior US official to visit Taipei in 40 years, threatening to escalate US-China tensionsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe US health secretary, Alex Azar, has met with Taiwan\u2019s president, Tsai Ing-wen&#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":[41,50,1069,74,554,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-taiwan","category-trump-administration","category-us-news","category-us-politics","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\/21558","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=21558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21569,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21558\/revisions\/21569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}