{"id":3885,"date":"2019-07-19T19:41:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T10:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/19\/taiwan-pledges-help-for-hong-kong-protesters-seeking-sanctuary"},"modified":"2019-07-19T19:41:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T10:41:05","slug":"taiwan-pledges-help-for-hong-kong-protesters-seeking-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=3885","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan pledges help for Hong Kong protesters seeking sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 30 protesters arrive in Taiwan to seek shelter from prosecution<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s government has said it will provide assistance to Hong Kong protesters seeking sanctuary, after local media reported dozens of activists involved in an unprecedented storming of the city\u2019s parliament had fled to the island.<\/p>\n<p>The pledge risks infuriating Beijing but comes as Taiwan gears up for a presidential election where a dominating issue will be relations with the mainland \u2013 which regards the self-ruled island as its own territory and has vowed to seize it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/19\/taiwan-pledges-help-for-hong-kong-protesters-seeking-sanctuary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 30 protesters arrive in Taiwan to seek shelter from prosecutionTaiwan\u2019s government has said it will provide assistance to Hong Kong protesters seeking sanctuary, after local media reported dozens of activists involved in an unprecedented stor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,50,48,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","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\/3885","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3886,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions\/3886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}