{"id":33294,"date":"2021-06-20T13:23:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T04:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/20\/taiwan-thankful-us-sends-25m-covid-vaccine-doses"},"modified":"2021-06-20T13:23:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T04:23:08","slug":"forces-for-good-will-prevail-joy-in-taiwan-as-us-sends-2-5m-covid-vaccine-doses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33294","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Forces for good will prevail\u2019: Joy in Taiwan as US sends 2.5m Covid vaccine doses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US donation has more than doubled Taiwan\u2019s available vaccine stocks as it battles a rise in coronavirus infections<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Taiwan has reacted with an outpouring of thanks to the United States for shipping 2.5m Covid-19 vaccine doses to the island, more than doubling its arsenal as it deals with a rise in domestic infections.<\/p>\n<p>Washington, competing with Beijing to deepen geopolitical clout through \u201cvaccine diplomacy\u201d, initially had promised to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/06\/us-taiwan-covid-vaccine-doses-senators-visit-tsai-ing-wen\">donate 750,000 doses<\/a> but increased that number as President Joe Biden\u2019s administration advances its pledge to send 80m US-made shots around the world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/20\/taiwan-thankful-us-sends-25m-covid-vaccine-doses\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US donation has more than doubled Taiwan\u2019s available vaccine stocks as it battles a rise in coronavirus infectionsSee all our coronavirus coverageTaiwan has reacted with an outpouring of thanks to the United States for shipping 2.5m Covid-19 vaccin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,50,1066,74,45,47,565,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","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\/33294","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33295,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33294\/revisions\/33295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}