{"id":45362,"date":"2022-06-12T10:46:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T01:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/12\/chinas-taiwan-beijings-defence-minister-rails-against-smearing-and-interfering-us"},"modified":"2022-06-12T10:46:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T01:46:13","slug":"chinas-taiwan-beijings-defence-minister-rails-against-smearing-and-interfering-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45362","title":{"rendered":"\u2018China\u2019s Taiwan\u2019: Beijing\u2019s defence minister rails against \u2018smearing and interfering\u2019 US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wei Fenghe says ties are at critical juncture and puts onus on United States to improve bilateral relationship<\/p>\n<p>China will \u201cfight to the very end\u201d to stop Taiwan from declaring independence, the country\u2019s defence minister has vowed in a speech amid his counterparts from other countries including the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will fight at all cost and we will fight to the very end. This is the only choice for China,\u201d Wei Fenghe told the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore, where he called Taiwan \u201cfirst and foremost China\u2019s Taiwan\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/12\/chinas-taiwan-beijings-defence-minister-rails-against-smearing-and-interfering-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wei Fenghe says ties are at critical juncture and puts onus on United States to improve bilateral relationshipChina will \u201cfight to the very end\u201d to stop Taiwan from declaring independence, the country\u2019s defence minister has vowed in a speech amid his c&#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":[41,50,74,45,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/45362","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=45362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45363,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45362\/revisions\/45363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}