{"id":47118,"date":"2022-08-05T17:39:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T08:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/aug\/05\/defend-ourselves-taiwan-president-warning-china-video"},"modified":"2022-08-05T17:39:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T08:39:04","slug":"we-will-defend-ourselves-taiwans-president-issues-warning-to-china-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47118","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We will defend ourselves&#8217;: Taiwan&#8217;s president issues warning to China \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan&#8217;s president says her country will not provoke conflicts but will firmly defend its sovereignty and national security. Tsai&nbsp;Ing-wen delivers a video message in response to China&#8217;s exercises, in which it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/05\/taiwan-china-missile-launches-military-drills-exercises-us-japan\">fired missiles<\/a> near Taiwan waters, a day after US house speaker Nancy Pelosi made a solidarity trip to the island.&nbsp; Taiwan&#8217;s president says: &#8216;We are calm and not impetuous, we are rational and not provocative, but we will also be firm and not shirk.&nbsp; Taiwan will never be knocked down by challenges&#8217;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/aug\/05\/china-taiwan-news-live-fire-military-drills-exercises-us-warns-mistake-could-lead-to-conflict\">Taiwan crisis \u2013 live<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/aug\/05\/defend-ourselves-taiwan-president-warning-china-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan&#8217;s president says her country will not provoke conflicts but will firmly defend its sovereignty and national security. Tsai&nbsp;Ing-wen delivers a video message in response to China&#8217;s exercises, in which it&nbsp;fired missiles near Taiwan waters&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[50,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47118","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47119,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47118\/revisions\/47119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}