{"id":54049,"date":"2023-04-04T08:01:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T23:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/04\/us-house-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-confirms-he-will-meet-taiwan-president-in-california"},"modified":"2023-04-04T08:01:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T23:01:09","slug":"us-house-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-confirms-he-will-meet-taiwan-president-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54049","title":{"rendered":"US house speaker Kevin McCarthy confirms he will meet Taiwan president in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China previously warned McCarthy he is \u2018playing with fire\u2019 over the meeting and risks \u2018serious confrontation\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 and Taiwan tensions explained in 30 seconds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Republican US House speaker Kevin McCarthy has confirmed he will meet Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in California on Wednesday, defying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/30\/taiwan-president-protests-us-new-york-stopover-china-central-america-trip\">dire warnings from China<\/a> that he was \u201cplaying with fire\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Tsai plans to stop over in the United States on her return from Central America, where she has met the leaders of Guatemala and is visiting Belize before meeting McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/04\/us-house-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-confirms-he-will-meet-taiwan-president-in-california\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China previously warned McCarthy he is \u2018playing with fire\u2019 over the meeting and risks \u2018serious confrontation\u2019China and Taiwan tensions explained in 30 secondsRepublican US House speaker Kevin McCarthy has confirmed he will meet Taiwanese President Tsai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,50,74,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-us-news","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\/54049","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54051,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54049\/revisions\/54051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}