{"id":50950,"date":"2022-12-07T09:52:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T00:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/07\/taiwan-foreign-minister-china-may-scapegoat-us-over-covid-protests"},"modified":"2022-12-07T09:52:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T00:52:28","slug":"taiwan-foreign-minister-china-may-scapegoat-us-over-covid-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50950","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan foreign minister: China may scapegoat us over Covid protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Wu backs Chinese protesters but says Beijing \u2018might try to create external crisis to divert domestic attention\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s foreign minister has backed China\u2019s anti-Covid protesters but also expressed concerns that Beijing could seek to scapegoat Taiwan if demonstrations restarted.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Wu said Taiwan stood alongside other democracies in calling for China to \u201crespect basic human rights\u201d regarding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/30\/us-and-canada-urge-china-not-to-harm-zero-covid-protesters-amid-calls-for-crackdown\">extraordinary protests<\/a> that spread across China last week and the swift police response to close in on those involved.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/07\/taiwan-foreign-minister-china-may-scapegoat-us-over-covid-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Wu backs Chinese protesters but says Beijing \u2018might try to create external crisis to divert domestic attention\u2019Taiwan\u2019s foreign minister has backed China\u2019s anti-Covid protesters but also expressed concerns that Beijing could seek to scapegoat Ta&#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":[41,50,1066,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50950","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=50950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50951,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50950\/revisions\/50951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}