{"id":37780,"date":"2021-10-07T15:01:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T06:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/07\/tony-abbott-tells-taiwans-president-democracies-must-stand-shoulder-to-shoulder-against-china"},"modified":"2021-10-07T15:01:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T06:01:03","slug":"tony-abbott-tells-taiwan-president-democracies-must-stand-shoulder-to-shoulder-against-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37780","title":{"rendered":"Tony Abbott tells Taiwan president democracies must \u2018stand shoulder to shoulder\u2019 against China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former prime minister meets Tsai Ing-wen in Taipei and suggests Australia has previously \u2018overemphasised fostering democracy\u2019 in China<\/p>\n<p>The former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has told the president of Taiwan he hopes his visit to the democratically ruled island will help end its isolation from the international community.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott met Tsai Ing-wen at the presidential office in Taipei on Thursday. He said China\u2019s recent incursions into Taiwan\u2019s air defence zone made it even more important that \u201cfellow democracies stand shoulder to shoulder with you\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/07\/tony-abbott-tells-taiwans-president-democracies-must-stand-shoulder-to-shoulder-against-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former prime minister meets Tsai Ing-wen in Taipei and suggests Australia has previously \u2018overemphasised fostering democracy\u2019 in ChinaThe former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has told the president of Taiwan he hopes his visit to the democratic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1301,"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":[41,43,50,74,1627],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-taiwan","category-tony-abbott"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37780","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\/1301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37781,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37780\/revisions\/37781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}