{"id":49231,"date":"2022-10-10T17:58:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T08:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/10\/taiwan-president-calls-for-unity-to-tackle-chinese-disinformation-ahead-of-elections"},"modified":"2022-10-10T17:58:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T08:58:14","slug":"taiwans-president-calls-for-unity-against-chinese-disinformation-before-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49231","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan\u2019s president calls for unity against Chinese disinformation before elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tsai Ing-wen compares China\u2019s \u2018bullying\u2019 to Russian invasion of Ukraine on de facto national day<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s president has called for domestic political unity to combat Chinese disinformation and cyberwarfare destabilising society before next month\u2019s local elections.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing crowds at Taiwan\u2019s de facto National Day on Monday, Tsai Ing-wen said Taiwan had to increase its resilience and international standing in the face of China\u2019s growing authoritarianism. She warned Beijing that Taiwan would not give up its democracy or sovereignty, but she remained willing to restart communications \u2013 which China cut off after her election in 2016.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/10\/taiwan-president-calls-for-unity-to-tackle-chinese-disinformation-ahead-of-elections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tsai Ing-wen compares China\u2019s \u2018bullying\u2019 to Russian invasion of Ukraine on de facto national dayTaiwan\u2019s president has called for domestic political unity to combat Chinese disinformation and cyberwarfare destabilising society before next month\u2019s local&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2626,"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":[41,50,1367,74,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-cyberwar","category-taiwan","category-technology","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\/49231","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\/2626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49232,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49231\/revisions\/49232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}