{"id":25459,"date":"2020-12-07T12:28:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T03:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/07\/stronger-together-taiwan-foreign-minister-urges-new-alliance-against-china"},"modified":"2020-12-07T12:28:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T03:28:55","slug":"stronger-together-taiwan-foreign-minister-urges-new-alliance-against-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25459","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stronger together&#8217;: Taiwan foreign minister urges new alliance against China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Wu says Beijing is seeking to expand its \u2018authoritarian order\u2019 and calls for \u2018like-minded\u2019 nations to act together to protect Taiwan<\/p>\n<p>The international community must join together in resisting China\u2019s expansionism and preventing an invasion of Taiwan by sharing intelligence, rethinking Chinese business ties and boosting Taipei\u2019s presence on the world stage, Taiwan\u2019s foreign minister has said.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Guardian, Joseph Wu said China\u2019s activities in the South China and East China seas, its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/08\/china-india-border-soldiers-pangong-lake\">border skirmishes with India<\/a>, and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/the-fight-for-hong-kong\">crackdown on Hong Kong<\/a> were evidence of it seeking to \u201cexpand its authoritarian order\u201d, and that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/02\/after-hong-kong-china-taiwan-invasion-armed-forces\">Taiwan was its next target<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/07\/stronger-together-taiwan-foreign-minister-urges-new-alliance-against-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Wu says Beijing is seeking to expand its \u2018authoritarian order\u2019 and calls for \u2018like-minded\u2019 nations to act together to protect TaiwanThe international community must join together in resisting China\u2019s expansionism and preventing an invasion of Ta&#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":[41,50,74,45,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/25459","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=25459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25461,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25459\/revisions\/25461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}