{"id":42109,"date":"2022-03-02T15:03:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T06:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/02\/china-denounces-visit-by-us-delegation-to-taiwan-as-tensions-simmer"},"modified":"2022-03-02T15:03:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T06:03:52","slug":"china-denounces-visit-by-us-delegation-to-taiwan-as-tensions-simmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42109","title":{"rendered":"China denounces visit by US delegation to Taiwan as tensions simmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing reacts angrily to the visit by former US top security officials to Chinese-claimed Taiwan amid fears of a possible conflict in the region <\/p>\n<p>China has denounced a visit by a US delegation to Taiwan as the island\u2019s president Tsai Ing-wen vowed to work more closely with allies in response to what she called China\u2019s growing military threat.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation of former US top security and defence officials has been sent by president Joe Biden and is visiting Chinese-claimed Taiwan against the backdrop of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/mar\/02\/ukraine-news-russia-war-kyiv-kharkiv-russian-invasion-vladimir-putin-joe-biden-latest-live-updates\">Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine<\/a>, which is being closely watched on the democratic island.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/02\/china-denounces-visit-by-us-delegation-to-taiwan-as-tensions-simmer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing reacts angrily to the visit by former US top security officials to Chinese-claimed Taiwan amid fears of a possible conflict in the region China has denounced a visit by a US delegation to Taiwan as the island\u2019s president Tsai Ing-wen vowed to w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2934,"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":[41,50,74,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42109","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\/2934"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42110,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42109\/revisions\/42110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}