{"id":23646,"date":"2020-10-10T14:57:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T05:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/10\/taiwans-president-calls-for-less-tension-with-china-in-annual-address"},"modified":"2020-10-10T14:57:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T05:57:26","slug":"taiwans-president-calls-for-less-tension-with-china-in-annual-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23646","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan&#8217;s president calls for less tension with China in annual address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tsai Ing-wen says she hopes \u2018this is the beginning of genuine change\u2019 after Xi Jinping\u2019s UN speech saying Beijing would never seek hegemony<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s president, Tsai Ing-wen, says she has hopes for less tensions with China and in the region if Beijing will listen to Taipei\u2019s concerns, alter its approach and restart dialogue with the self-ruled island democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at Taiwan\u2019s national day celebrations on Saturday, Tsai took note of recent remarks by Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, in a video message to the UN general assembly that China would never seek hegemony, expansion or to establish a sphere of influence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/10\/taiwans-president-calls-for-less-tension-with-china-in-annual-address\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tsai Ing-wen says she hopes \u2018this is the beginning of genuine change\u2019 after Xi Jinping\u2019s UN speech saying Beijing would never seek hegemonyTaiwan\u2019s president, Tsai Ing-wen, says she has hopes for less tensions with China and in the region if Beijing wi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,50,74,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-united-nations","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\/23646","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23647,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23646\/revisions\/23647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}