{"id":51983,"date":"2023-01-19T10:59:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T01:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/19\/dont-appease-china-warns-taiwans-likely-presidential-successor"},"modified":"2023-01-19T10:59:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T01:59:18","slug":"dont-appease-china-warns-taiwans-likely-presidential-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51983","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t appease China, warns Taiwan\u2019s likely presidential successor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Lai urges Taiwanese to unite in the face of \u2018the expansion of China\u2019s authoritarianism\u2019, in first comments since taking party leadership<\/p>\n<p>Appeasing China will not bring peace, Taiwan\u2019s vice-president has said, days after he was elected head of the ruling party in a move that makes him a prime presidential contender at the next election.<\/p>\n<p>William Lai, 63, is seen as a likely successor to President Tsai Ing-wen, who is barred from running again after her second four-year term ends in May 2024.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/19\/dont-appease-china-warns-taiwans-likely-presidential-successor\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Lai urges Taiwanese to unite in the face of \u2018the expansion of China\u2019s authoritarianism\u2019, in first comments since taking party leadershipAppeasing China will not bring peace, Taiwan\u2019s vice-president has said, days after he was elected head of th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":634,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51983","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\/634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51984,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51983\/revisions\/51984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}