{"id":46949,"date":"2022-08-01T23:46:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T14:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/british-mps-plan-visit-to-taiwan-as-tension-with-china-simmers"},"modified":"2022-08-01T23:46:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T14:46:23","slug":"british-mps-plan-visit-to-taiwan-as-tension-with-china-simmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46949","title":{"rendered":"British MPs plan visit to Taiwan as tension with China simmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Tom Tugendhat likely to lead trip later this year as London\u2019s relationship with Beijing deteriorates<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s House of Commons foreign affairs committee is planning a visit to Taiwan later this year \u2013 probably in November or early December \u2013 despite rising tensions in the region, the Guardian has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Sources say the trip \u2013 which was originally scheduled for early this year but was postponed due to one member of the delegation testing positive for Covid \u2013 was intended to show Britain\u2019s support for the democratically run island, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/china-and-taiwan-whats-behind-the-tensions-in-30-seconds\">China considers its own<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/british-mps-plan-visit-to-taiwan-as-tension-with-china-simmers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Tom Tugendhat likely to lead trip later this year as London\u2019s relationship with Beijing deterioratesBritain\u2019s House of Commons foreign affairs committee is planning a visit to Taiwan later this year \u2013 probably in November or early December \u2013&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"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":[41,50,319,4,74,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-politics","category-taiwan","category-uk-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\/46949","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\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46950,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46949\/revisions\/46950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}