{"id":45343,"date":"2022-06-11T09:29:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T00:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/11\/china-will-start-a-war-if-taiwan-declares-independence-says-defence-minister"},"modified":"2022-06-12T02:07:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T17:07:39","slug":"china-will-start-a-war-if-taiwan-declares-independence-says-defence-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45343","title":{"rendered":"US warns of \u2018stark\u2019 stakes in Taiwan Strait if status quo unilaterally altered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defence secretary says US does not support Taiwan independence, which China says would prompt it to take island back<\/p>\n<p>The US has warned of \u201cespecially stark\u201d stakes in the Taiwan Strait if the status quo is unilaterally altered, as China reiterated its resolve to take the island back if it declares independence.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore on Saturday, US defence secretary Lloyd Austin said Washington does not support Taiwanese independence, and the Joe Biden administration \u201ccategorically\u201d opposes any change of the status quo.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/11\/china-will-start-a-war-if-taiwan-declares-independence-says-defence-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence secretary says US does not support Taiwan independence, which China says would prompt it to take island backThe US has warned of \u201cespecially stark\u201d stakes in the Taiwan Strait if the status quo is unilaterally altered, as China reiterated its r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,50,88,441,783,74,45,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-japan","category-nuclear-weapons","category-singapore","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/45343","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45361,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45343\/revisions\/45361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}