{"id":54102,"date":"2023-04-06T09:24:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T00:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/05\/taiwan-president-us-house-speaker-kevin-mccarthy"},"modified":"2023-04-06T12:39:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T03:39:14","slug":"taiwan-us-house-speaker-stresses-urgency-of-arms-sales-after-meeting-president-tsai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54102","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan monitoring Chinese strike group off the coast after president meets US speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has said it would take \u2018resolute\u2019 measures to defend sovereignty, after denouncing Tsai\u2019s meeting in California with McCarthy<\/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\u2013Taiwan tensions explained in 30 seconds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Taiwan authorities are monitoring Chinese military activity including a carrier strike group about 200 nautical miles (370km) off the main island\u2019s coastline, after President Tsai Ing-wen met US House speaker Kevin McCarthy in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>In the meeting, held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, McCarthy stressed the urgency of arms deliveries to Taiwan, while Tsai praised the \u201cstrong and unique partnership\u201d with the US..<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/05\/taiwan-president-us-house-speaker-kevin-mccarthy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has said it would take \u2018resolute\u2019 measures to defend sovereignty, after denouncing Tsai\u2019s meeting in California with McCarthyChina\u2013Taiwan tensions explained in 30 secondsTaiwan authorities are monitoring Chinese military activity including a carr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3680,"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":[41,50,1007,2859,1150,74,45,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-democrats","category-kevin-mccarthy","category-republicans","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/54102","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\/3680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54125,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54102\/revisions\/54125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}