{"id":37865,"date":"2021-10-10T12:27:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T03:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/10\/taiwan-national-day-we-wont-bow-to-china-says-president"},"modified":"2021-10-10T23:07:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T14:07:14","slug":"taiwan-national-day-we-wont-bow-to-china-says-president-amid-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37865","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan national day: we will not bow to China, says president amid tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tsai Ing-wen condemns China\u2019s plans for Taiwan and says island will continue to build its defences<\/p>\n<p>No one will force Taipei to take the path laid out by Beijing, Tsai Ing-wen has vowed on Taiwan\u2019s national day, pledging to continue bolstering the island\u2019s military defences.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to repeated threats from China\u2019s leaders that it will one day take Taiwan \u2013 by force if need be \u2013 and overthrow its democratically elected government, the president said Taiwan had the resolve to defend itself and its future, which \u201cmust be decided in accordance with the will of the Taiwanese people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/10\/taiwan-national-day-we-wont-bow-to-china-says-president\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tsai Ing-wen condemns China\u2019s plans for Taiwan and says island will continue to build its defencesNo one will force Taipei to take the path laid out by Beijing, Tsai Ing-wen has vowed on Taiwan\u2019s national day, pledging to continue bolstering the island&#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-37865","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\/37865","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=37865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37877,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37865\/revisions\/37877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}