{"id":47907,"date":"2022-08-28T16:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T07:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/28\/we-are-chinese-meet-the-taiwanese-who-want-to-embrace-beijing-rule"},"modified":"2022-08-28T16:00:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T07:00:22","slug":"we-are-chinese-meet-the-taiwanese-who-want-to-embrace-beijing-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47907","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We are Chinese\u2019: meet the Taiwanese who want to embrace Beijing rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surveys reveal that up to 12% of the country supports unification with China, including five of its citizens in a Taipei restaurant <\/p>\n<p>At a Cantonese restaurant in Taipei, Harry Chen and four old friends are shouting at each other over a Lazy Susan, stopping occasionally to toast each other with Canadian whisky or translate their argument into English.<\/p>\n<p>All are retired men in their 70s \u2013 the sons of Chinese nationalist soldiers \u2013 and were born or grew up in Taiwan during its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/07\/something-wrong-something-good-taiwan-grapples-with-remembering-chiang-kai-shek\" title=\"\">brutal decades of martial law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/28\/we-are-chinese-meet-the-taiwanese-who-want-to-embrace-beijing-rule\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surveys reveal that up to 12% of the country supports unification with China, including five of its citizens in a Taipei restaurant At a Cantonese restaurant in Taipei, Harry Chen and four old friends are shouting at each other over a Lazy Susan, stopp&#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":[41,50,74,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47907","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=47907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47930,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47907\/revisions\/47930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}