{"id":54083,"date":"2023-04-05T19:10:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T10:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/05\/rival-protests-los-angeles-taiwan-president-tsai-ing-wen-arrives-visit"},"modified":"2023-04-05T19:10:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T10:10:58","slug":"rival-protests-in-los-angeles-as-taiwans-president-arrives-for-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54083","title":{"rendered":"Rival protests in Los Angeles as Taiwan\u2019s president arrives for visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Tsai Ing-wen to meet the US House speaker, Kevin McCarthy, which China has called a \u2018provocation\u2019<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Pro and anti-Taiwan protesters gathered at Los Angeles airport for the arrival of Taiwan\u2019s president, Tsai Ing-wen, before a meeting scheduled for Wednesday with the US House speaker, Kevin McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters also crowded outside Tsai\u2019s LA hotel on Tuesday evening, banging drums, chanting and holding Taiwanese flags and photos of the president, who shook hands with supporters as she entered. A smaller, pro-Beijing group gathered nearby on the pavement, separated by a police line, at times chanting \u201cOne China\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/05\/rival-protests-los-angeles-taiwan-president-tsai-ing-wen-arrives-visit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Tsai Ing-wen to meet the US House speaker, Kevin McCarthy, which China has called a \u2018provocation\u2019Pro and anti-Taiwan protesters gathered at Los Angeles airport for the arrival of Taiwan\u2019s president, Tsai Ing-wen, before a meeting scheduled for Wednesd&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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-54083","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\/54083","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54098,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54083\/revisions\/54098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}