{"id":47881,"date":"2022-08-27T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T04:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/27\/the-pelosi-effect-foreign-delegations-queue-up-to-visit-taiwan-in-defiance-of-china"},"modified":"2022-08-27T13:00:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T04:00:18","slug":"the-pelosi-effect-foreign-delegations-queue-up-to-visit-taiwan-in-defiance-of-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47881","title":{"rendered":"The Pelosi effect: foreign delegations queue up to visit Taiwan in defiance of China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the US speaker\u2019s visit, groups from the US, Japan and Lithuania have arrived in Taipei, vowing they won\u2019t be bullied by Beijing \u2013 and more are coming<\/p>\n<p>Late on Thursday evening a US air force plane touched down at Taiwan\u2019s Songshan airport. Unannounced, it attracted a fraction of the fanfare that greeted the plane carrying US speaker Nancy Pelosi three weeks earlier, but was still broadcast live on television. Traveling solo, senator Marsha Blackburn stepped onto the dark tarmac where she was met by a foreign ministry official, and they quickly moved inside the terminal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just landed in Taiwan to send a message to Beijing \u2013 we will not be bullied,\u201d Blackburn tweeted.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/27\/the-pelosi-effect-foreign-delegations-queue-up-to-visit-taiwan-in-defiance-of-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the US speaker\u2019s visit, groups from the US, Japan and Lithuania have arrived in Taipei, vowing they won\u2019t be bullied by Beijing \u2013 and more are comingLate on Thursday evening a US air force plane touched down at Taiwan\u2019s Songshan airport. Unannoun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,74,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/47881","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47882,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47881\/revisions\/47882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}