{"id":26559,"date":"2021-01-10T09:59:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/09\/mike-pompeo-restrictions-us-taiwan-china"},"modified":"2021-01-10T15:38:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T06:38:29","slug":"pompeo-lifts-us-taiwan-restrictions-in-move-likely-to-anger-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26559","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo lifts US-Taiwan restrictions in move likely to anger China"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Tensions already high between Washington and Beijing<\/li>\n<li>Trump aide says former measures meant to appease Chinese<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Secretary of state Mike Pompeo is lifting restrictions on contacts between US officials and their Taiwanese counterparts, a move welcomed by Taiwan but labelled by some observers a publicity stunt likely designed to anger China.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came late on Saturday, just 11 days before the departure of President Donald Trump, whose foreign relations have been defined by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/oct\/25\/us-china-relations-trump-or-biden-election\">increased hostilities with Beijing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/09\/mike-pompeo-restrictions-us-taiwan-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions already high between Washington and BeijingTrump aide says former measures meant to appease ChineseSecretary of state Mike Pompeo is lifting restrictions on contacts between US officials and their Taiwanese counterparts, a move welcomed by Tai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1803,"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":[41,50,472,74,554,45,758,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-mike-pompeo","category-taiwan","category-trump-administration","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-national-security","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\/26559","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\/1803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26559"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26562,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26559\/revisions\/26562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}