{"id":37676,"date":"2021-10-05T14:39:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T05:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/05\/taiwan-president-warns-of-catastrophic-consequences-if-island-falls-to-china"},"modified":"2021-10-05T14:39:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T05:39:26","slug":"taiwan-president-warns-of-catastrophic-consequences-if-island-falls-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37676","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan president warns of \u2018catastrophic consequences\u2019 if island falls to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tsai Ing-wen says Taiwan will \u2018do whatever it takes to defend itself\u2019 against an increasingly assertive Beijing<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan is committed to defending its democracy against an increasingly aggressive China, the island\u2019s president has vowed, warning of \u201ccatastrophic consequences\u201d for the region should it fall.<\/p>\n<p>The comments from Tsai Ing-wen, in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/articles\/taiwan\/2021-10-05\/taiwan-and-fight-democracy\">essay published on Tuesday<\/a>, came amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/04\/taiwan-reports-record-chinese-incursions-into-its-air-defence-zone\">record-breaking incursions by Chinese warplanes<\/a> into its air defence zone. On Tuesday Taiwan\u2019s premier, Su Tseng-chang, said the \u201cover the top\u201d activity violated regional peace, and Taiwan needed to be on alert.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/05\/taiwan-president-warns-of-catastrophic-consequences-if-island-falls-to-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tsai Ing-wen says Taiwan will \u2018do whatever it takes to defend itself\u2019 against an increasingly assertive BeijingTaiwan is committed to defending its democracy against an increasingly aggressive China, the island\u2019s president has vowed, warning of \u201ccatast&#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":[41,50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","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\/37676","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=37676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37677,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37676\/revisions\/37677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}