{"id":38411,"date":"2021-10-28T00:13:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T15:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/27\/taiwan-has-no-right-to-join-un-china-insists-as-us-ratchets-up-tensions"},"modified":"2021-10-28T20:55:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T11:55:23","slug":"taiwan-has-no-right-to-join-un-china-says-as-us-ratchets-up-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38411","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan president says China threat growing \u2018every day\u2019 as Biden criticises Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tsai Ing-wen says island is \u2018on the front lines\u2019 in the fight for democracy, while US president accuses China of undermining peace<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan is on the \u201cfront lines\u201d in the fight for democracy as the threat from China grows \u201cevery day\u201d, its president Tsai Ing-wen has said, as US president Joe Biden criticised China\u2019s \u201ccoercive\u201d actions in the Taiwan Strait.<\/p>\n<p>The democratically elected Tsai told CNN she remained open to dialogue with China\u2019s leader Xi Jinping, but<strong> <\/strong>amid increased risk of military action she had \u201cfaith\u201d that the US would come to the island\u2019s defence.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/27\/taiwan-has-no-right-to-join-un-china-insists-as-us-ratchets-up-tensions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tsai Ing-wen says island is \u2018on the front lines\u2019 in the fight for democracy, while US president accuses China of undermining peaceTaiwan is on the \u201cfront lines\u201d in the fight for democracy as the threat from China grows \u201cevery day\u201d, its president Tsai I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"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":[2003,41,50,74,84,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antony-blinken","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-united-nations","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38411","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\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38411"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38454,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38411\/revisions\/38454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}