{"id":47009,"date":"2022-08-03T03:42:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T18:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/mood-shifts-in-taiwan-as-nancy-pelosi-visit-raises-fears-of-war"},"modified":"2022-08-03T03:42:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T18:42:31","slug":"mood-shifts-in-taiwan-as-nancy-pelosi-visit-raises-fears-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47009","title":{"rendered":"Mood shifts in Taiwan as Nancy Pelosi visit raises fears of war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stoic, often fatalistic population paid little attention to talk of House speaker\u2019s visit \u2013 until it was confirmed<\/p>\n<p>At a central Taipei branch of a popular bank on Tuesday, a few clients came to Joseph Chiu, a teller, with an odd request: to withdraw millions of kuai from their accounts. \u201cThey worry the bank will close its doors tomorrow,\u201d he said during an afternoon streetside smoke break.<\/p>\n<p>Chiu said he wasn\u2019t worried about such an event, and there is no indication that it is even a possibility, but it was a small sign that among Taiwan\u2019s stoic, often fatalistic population, something had shifted this week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/mood-shifts-in-taiwan-as-nancy-pelosi-visit-raises-fears-of-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stoic, often fatalistic population paid little attention to talk of House speaker\u2019s visit \u2013 until it was confirmedAt a central Taipei branch of a popular bank on Tuesday, a few clients came to Joseph Chiu, a teller, with an odd request: to withdraw mil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2626,"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":[41,50,2185,74,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-nancy-pelosi","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47009","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\/2626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47026,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47009\/revisions\/47026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}