{"id":53660,"date":"2023-03-22T06:11:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T21:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/21\/taiwan-president-to-visit-latin-america-us-stops"},"modified":"2023-03-22T11:44:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T02:44:12","slug":"taiwan-president-heads-to-latin-america-after-partners-switch-ties-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53660","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan says it has \u2018contingency plans\u2019 for any moves by China during president Tsai\u2019s trip abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tsai Ing-wen will visit allies Guatemala and Belize next week, and stopover in the US, after Honduras said it would establish \u2018official relations\u2019 with China<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s defence ministry has contingency plans for any moves by China during Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen\u2019s visit to the US and Central America, deputy defence minister Po Horng-huei has said ahead of Tsai\u2019s departure next week.<\/p>\n<p>China, which claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, carried out large-scale, live-fire war games around the island last August after a visit to Taipei by then-US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/21\/taiwan-president-to-visit-latin-america-us-stops\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tsai Ing-wen will visit allies Guatemala and Belize next week, and stopover in the US, after Honduras said it would establish \u2018official relations\u2019 with ChinaTaiwan\u2019s defence ministry has contingency plans for any moves by China during Taiwan President &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3654,"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":[246,41,1366,50,2413,74,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-belize","category-china","category-guatemala","category-taiwan","category-us-news","category-us-politics","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\/53660","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\/3654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53689,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53660\/revisions\/53689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}