{"id":44373,"date":"2022-05-10T23:44:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T14:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/10\/beijing-accuses-us-of-political-manipulation-in-latest-taiwan-row"},"modified":"2022-05-11T02:54:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T17:54:39","slug":"beijing-accuses-us-of-political-manipulation-in-latest-taiwan-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44373","title":{"rendered":"Beijing accuses US of \u2018political manipulation\u2019 in latest Taiwan row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State department fact sheet amended to remove line saying US \u2018does not support Taiwan independence\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has accused Washington of \u201cpolitical manipulation\u201d and attempting to change the status quo after the US state department quietly amended its website to remove a line stating it did not support Taiwanese independence.<\/p>\n<p>In a delicate geopolitical balancing act, the US has long acknowledged, but not supported, China\u2019s claim to Taiwan under its version of the \u201cone China principle\u201d. However, experts say that policy has been eroded as Beijing has become more assertive.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/10\/beijing-accuses-us-of-political-manipulation-in-latest-taiwan-row\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State department fact sheet amended to remove line saying US \u2018does not support Taiwan independence\u2019Beijing has accused Washington of \u201cpolitical manipulation\u201d and attempting to change the status quo after the US state department quietly amended its webs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2113,"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":[41,50,74,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","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\/44373","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\/2113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44393,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44373\/revisions\/44393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}