{"id":53906,"date":"2023-03-29T13:13:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T04:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/29\/china-warns-of-retaliation-if-taiwans-president-meets-us-house-speaker"},"modified":"2023-03-29T13:13:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T04:13:02","slug":"china-warns-of-retaliation-if-taiwans-president-meets-us-house-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53906","title":{"rendered":"China warns of retaliation if Taiwan\u2019s president meets US House speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing has urged the US not to allow Tsai Ing-wen to transit through the US, saying it would be a \u2018provocation\u2019 <\/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>The Chinese government has threatened retaliation if Taiwan\u2019s president, Tsai Ing-wen, meets the US House speaker this week, and urged the US not to let her transit through the country, saying it would be a \u201cprovocation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Tsai left Taiwan on Wednesday afternoon for a 10-day trip to visit Central American allies, Belize and Guatemala. The trip includes two stopovers, in New York on the way in, and Los Angeles on the way out. Tsai is expected to meet with the speaker, Kevin McCarthy in California, but there hasn\u2019t been official confirmation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/29\/china-warns-of-retaliation-if-taiwans-president-meets-us-house-speaker\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing has urged the US not to allow Tsai Ing-wen to transit through the US, saying it would be a \u2018provocation\u2019 China-Taiwan relations explained in 30 secondsThe Chinese government has threatened retaliation if Taiwan\u2019s president, Tsai Ing-wen, meets &#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":[41,50,2859,74,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-kevin-mccarthy","category-taiwan","category-us-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53906","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=53906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53907,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53906\/revisions\/53907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}