{"id":47035,"date":"2022-08-03T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/taiwanese-americans-pelosi-visit-taiwan-china"},"modified":"2022-08-03T14:00:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T05:00:20","slug":"hoopla-and-yellow-journalism-taiwanese-americans-bemoan-media-fearmongering-over-pelosi-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47035","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hoopla and yellow journalism\u2019: Taiwanese Americans bemoan media fearmongering over Pelosi visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hyperbolic tenor of debate shows lack of knowledge of country\u2019s unique political situation, Taiwanese Americans say<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Pelosi\u2019s arrival in Taiwan has inflamed US-China relations anew, with China\u2019s military <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202208\/1272075.shtml\">announcing<\/a> it will conduct live-fire exercises around the island and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202208\/1272014.shtml\">state media<\/a> condemning the visit as \u201cstupid, reckless and dangerous\u201d. Meanwhile, US commentators across the ideological spectrum, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/01\/opinion\/nancy-pelosi-taiwan-china.html\">Thomas Friedman<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/tucker-carlson-biden-admin-provoking-war-china\">Tucker Carlson<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codepink.org\/pelosi_taiwan\">Code Pink<\/a>, have called Pelosi\u2019s trip a reckless provocation to war.<\/p>\n<p>But to Taiwanese Americans who have spent a lifetime grappling with the island\u2019s strange geopolitical status, the hyperbolic tenor of the debate over Pelosi\u2019s visit is indicative of how little most Americans know or care about the people of Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/02\/taiwanese-americans-pelosi-visit-taiwan-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyperbolic tenor of debate shows lack of knowledge of country\u2019s unique political situation, Taiwanese Americans sayNancy Pelosi\u2019s arrival in Taiwan has inflamed US-China relations anew, with China\u2019s military announcing it will conduct live-fire exercis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3224,"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":[41,74,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-taiwan","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\/47035","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\/3224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47036,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47035\/revisions\/47036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}