{"id":53713,"date":"2023-03-23T15:18:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T06:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/23\/british-mps-call-for-as-much-help-as-possible-for-taiwan-to-defend-against-china"},"modified":"2023-03-23T15:18:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T06:18:39","slug":"british-mps-call-for-as-much-help-as-possible-for-taiwan-to-defend-against-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53713","title":{"rendered":"British MPs call for \u2018as much help as possible\u2019 for Taiwan to defend against China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delegation of British lawmakers met Taiwan\u2019s president during visit to the island this week amid a deteriorating UK-China relationship<\/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 tensions explained in 30 seconds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A British parliamentary delegation to Taiwan has called for the UK government to give \u201cas much help as possible\u201d to Taiwan to defend itself against China.<\/p>\n<p>The visit by the British-Taiwanese All-Party Parliamentary Group to Taiwan this week included a meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen, and discussions of British defence exports which supply Taiwan\u2019s submarine program.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/23\/british-mps-call-for-as-much-help-as-possible-for-taiwan-to-defend-against-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delegation of British lawmakers met Taiwan\u2019s president during visit to the island this week amid a deteriorating UK-China relationshipChina-Taiwan tensions explained in 30 secondsA British parliamentary delegation to Taiwan has called for the UK govern&#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":[50,74,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-taiwan","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53713","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=53713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53714,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53713\/revisions\/53714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}