{"id":53176,"date":"2023-03-07T12:28:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T03:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/07\/us-speaker-mccarthy-plans-to-meet-taiwan-president-tsai-in-us-reports"},"modified":"2023-03-07T12:28:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T03:28:12","slug":"us-speaker-mccarthy-plans-to-meet-taiwan-president-tsai-in-us-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53176","title":{"rendered":"US speaker McCarthy plans to meet Taiwan president Tsai in US \u2013 reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sources say Tsai Ing-wen intends to meet McCarthy in the coming weeks, a move that may stoke tensions with Beijing and in the Taiwan strait<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/china-and-taiwan-whats-behind-the-tensions-in-30-seconds\">China-Taiwan relations explained in 30 seconds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s president, Tsai Ing-wen, plans to meet US House speaker Kevin McCarthy on a visit to the United States in coming weeks, according to sources speaking to the Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n<p>The Financial Times first reported the plans to meet in California, a move that could replace the Republican speaker\u2019s anticipated but sensitive trip to the democratically governed island claimed by China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/07\/us-speaker-mccarthy-plans-to-meet-taiwan-president-tsai-in-us-reports\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources say Tsai Ing-wen intends to meet McCarthy in the coming weeks, a move that may stoke tensions with Beijing and in the Taiwan straitChina-Taiwan relations explained in 30 secondsTaiwan\u2019s president, Tsai Ing-wen, plans to meet US House speaker Ke&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[50,2859,74,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-kevin-mccarthy","category-taiwan","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53176","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53177,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53176\/revisions\/53177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}