{"id":47309,"date":"2022-08-10T15:21:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T06:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/10\/chinese-ambassador-to-australia-says-beijing-will-use-all-necessary-means-for-taiwan-unification"},"modified":"2022-08-10T15:21:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T06:21:41","slug":"chinese-ambassador-to-australia-says-beijing-will-use-all-necessary-means-for-taiwan-unification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47309","title":{"rendered":"Chinese ambassador to Australia says Beijing will use \u2018all necessary means\u2019 for Taiwan \u2018unification\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xiao Qian says reset of China-Australia relationship is possible and suggests Washington had turned Canberra against Beijing<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2022\/aug\/09\/australia-news-latest-updates-tributes-flow-after-olivia-newton-john-dies-age-73\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">free news app<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning email briefing<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China\u2019s ambassador to Australia has warned Beijing is prepared to use \u201call necessary means\u201d to prevent Taiwan from being independent, saying there can be \u201cno compromise\u201d on the \u201cone China\u201d policy.<\/p>\n<p>Xiao Qian on Wednesday repeatedly blamed the US for the recent escalation in tensions. China\u2019s decision to launch ballistic missiles in live-fire exercises in response to speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s visit to Taiwan was \u201clegitimate and justified\u201d, he told the National Press Club in Canberra.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/10\/chinese-ambassador-to-australia-says-beijing-will-use-all-necessary-means-for-taiwan-unification\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xiao Qian says reset of China-Australia relationship is possible and suggests Washington had turned Canberra against BeijingFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastChi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"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":[41,43,324,50,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-china","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\/47309","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\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47322,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47309\/revisions\/47322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}