{"id":47365,"date":"2022-08-12T02:56:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T17:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/11\/us-protect-freedom-of-navigation-says-taiwan-envoy-china"},"modified":"2022-08-12T02:56:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T17:56:48","slug":"us-and-allies-should-move-to-protect-freedom-of-navigation-says-taiwan-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47365","title":{"rendered":"US and allies should move to protect \u2018freedom of navigation\u2019, says Taiwan envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Wu-Chiao Hsieh called for operations to uphold the \u2018median line\u2019 in the Taiwan Strait in response to China\u2019s military exercises<\/p>\n<p>The US and its allies should jointly respond to China\u2019s live ammunition drills designed to intimidate Taiwan by holding \u201cfreedom of navigation\u201d operations in the Taiwan Strait, Taipei\u2019s official representative to the UK has said.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Guardian, Kelly Wu-Chiao Hsieh also called on the UK to uphold the principles of rules-based international order and forge closer trade and security investment relations with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/taiwan\">Taiwan<\/a>. He welcomed the decision of the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/aug\/10\/liz-truss-summons-chinese-ambassador-over-aggression-towards-taiwan\">condemn<\/a> the unprecedented Chinese military exercises in the wake of the visit of the US House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, to the island, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/aug\/04\/china-expected-to-begin-live-fire-military-exercises-near-taiwan-coast-in-wake-of-pelosi-visit-live?page=with:block-62eb236e8f0892e28b4ab6bb\">the most senior US official to visit Taiwan in 25 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/11\/us-protect-freedom-of-navigation-says-taiwan-envoy-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Wu-Chiao Hsieh called for operations to uphold the \u2018median line\u2019 in the Taiwan Strait in response to China\u2019s military exercisesThe US and its allies should jointly respond to China\u2019s live ammunition drills designed to intimidate Taiwan by holding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[41,50,74,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-uk-news","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\/47365","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47388,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47365\/revisions\/47388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}