{"id":24983,"date":"2020-11-21T14:16:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T05:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/21\/us-and-taiwan-sign-five-year-agreement-on-health-tech-and-security"},"modified":"2020-11-21T14:16:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T05:16:49","slug":"us-and-taiwan-sign-five-year-agreement-on-health-tech-and-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24983","title":{"rendered":"US and Taiwan sign five-year agreement on health, tech and security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Countries emphasise potential for cooperation and future partnerships, which Beijing opposes<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan and the United States have held their first high-level meetings under a new economic dialogue, inking a five-year agreement and pledging future cooperation on health, tech, and security.<\/p>\n<p>The talks, held amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/nov\/20\/trump-michigan-republicans-election\">a contentious US presidential transition period<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/02\/after-hong-kong-china-taiwan-invasion-armed-forces\">high regional tensions with China<\/a>, did not advance Taiwan\u2019s hopes for a trade deal with US, despite the two countries growing closer under Donald Trump and his pushback on Beijing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/21\/us-and-taiwan-sign-five-year-agreement-on-health-tech-and-security\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countries emphasise potential for cooperation and future partnerships, which Beijing opposesTaiwan and the United States have held their first high-level meetings under a new economic dialogue, inking a five-year agreement and pledging future cooperati&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,437,558,557,74,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-economics","category-global-economy","category-international-trade","category-taiwan","category-us-news","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\/24983","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24984,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24983\/revisions\/24984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}