{"id":44742,"date":"2022-05-23T18:28:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T09:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/23\/us-would-defend-taiwan-if-attacked-by-china-says-joe-biden"},"modified":"2022-05-24T08:26:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T23:26:18","slug":"us-would-defend-taiwan-if-attacked-by-china-says-joe-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44742","title":{"rendered":"US would defend Taiwan if attacked by China, says Joe Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President says US\u2019s responsibility to protect island is \u2018even stronger\u2019 after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden has said the US would intervene militarily to defend Taiwan if it came under attack from China, in an unusually forceful presidential statement in support of self-governing that drew a defiant response from Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Tokyo on the second day of his visit to Japan, and against the backdrop of growing concern over Chinese military activity in the region, Biden said the US\u2019s responsibility to protect the self-ruled island \u2013 which China considers a renegade province \u2013 was \u201ceven stronger\u201d after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/23\/us-would-defend-taiwan-if-attacked-by-china-says-joe-biden\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President says US\u2019s responsibility to protect island is \u2018even stronger\u2019 after Russia\u2019s invasion of UkraineJoe Biden has said the US would intervene militarily to defend Taiwan if it came under attack from China, in an unusually forceful presidential st&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3084,"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":[41,50,88,939,74,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-japan","category-joe-biden","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\/44742","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\/3084"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44742"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44777,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44742\/revisions\/44777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}