{"id":44572,"date":"2022-05-17T16:25:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T07:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/17\/taiwan-president-tsai-ing-wen-condemns-california-church-shooting"},"modified":"2022-05-17T19:21:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T10:21:12","slug":"california-shooting-by-man-reportedly-driven-by-hatred-of-taiwan-condemned-by-islands-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44572","title":{"rendered":"Beijing\u2019s rhetoric in spotlight as Taiwan condemns California shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deadly incident renews debate over cross-strait tensions and Beijing\u2019s reunification rhetoric<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s president has condemned the deadly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/may\/16\/california-police-suspect-church-shooting\">shooting at a Taiwanese church in California<\/a> by a man reportedly driven by hatred of the self-governing island, where debate about cross-strait tensions has intensified along with Beijing\u2019s reunification rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>Tsai Ing-wen\u2019s office issued a statement saying she condemned \u201cany form of violence\u201d and extended her condolences to those killed and injured, and that she had asked the island\u2019s chief representative in the US to fly to California to provide assistance.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/17\/taiwan-president-tsai-ing-wen-condemns-california-church-shooting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadly incident renews debate over cross-strait tensions and Beijing\u2019s reunification rhetoricTaiwan\u2019s president has condemned the deadly shooting at a Taiwanese church in California by a man reportedly driven by hatred of the self-governing island, whe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3076,"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":[41,1084,50,74,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-california","category-china","category-taiwan","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\/44572","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\/3076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44582,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44572\/revisions\/44582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}