{"id":47313,"date":"2022-08-10T14:46:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T05:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/aug\/10\/china-ready-to-use-all-means-necessary-to-ensure-reunification-with-taiwan-xiao-qian-video"},"modified":"2022-08-10T14:46:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T05:46:45","slug":"china-ready-to-use-all-means-necessary-to-ensure-reunification-with-taiwan-xiao-qian-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47313","title":{"rendered":"China ready to use &#8216;all means necessary&#8217; to ensure &#8216;reunification&#8217; with Taiwan: Xiao Qian \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xiao Qian, the Chinese ambassador to Australia, said China would &#8216;not renounce&#8217; the use of force in Taiwan and would take &#8216;all necessary measures&#8217; to retain the &#8216;one China&#8217; principle at the National Press Club on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Xiao said Taiwan was &#8216;not an independent state&#8217; but a province of the People\u2019s Republic of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a>. He said that while they were waiting for a &#8216;peaceful reunification&#8217;, China is willing to use any means necessary.<\/p>\n<p>When asked what that would look like, he said: &#8216;You can use your imagination&#8217;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/aug\/10\/china-ready-to-use-all-means-necessary-to-ensure-reunification-with-taiwan-xiao-qian-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xiao Qian, the Chinese ambassador to Australia, said China would &#8216;not renounce&#8217; the use of force in Taiwan and would take &#8216;all necessary measures&#8217; to retain the &#8216;one China&#8217; principle at the National Press Club on Wednesday.Xiao said Taiwan was &#8216;not an &#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":[324,50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian-politics","category-china","category-taiwan","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\/47313","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=47313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47314,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47313\/revisions\/47314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}