{"id":54159,"date":"2023-04-07T21:51:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T12:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/07\/taiwan-president-tsai-ing-wen-meeting-us-speaker-divides-opinion"},"modified":"2023-04-07T21:51:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T12:51:49","slug":"taiwan-presidents-meeting-with-us-speaker-divides-opinion-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54159","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan president\u2019s meeting with US speaker divides opinion at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Tsai Ing-wen was visiting the US, her predecessor was in Beijing on a mission to bolster cross-strait relations<\/p>\n<p>When Tsai Ing-wen\u2019s presidential motorcade drove into the Ronald Reagan library grounds on Wednesday, opposing camps of protesters lined the road. Tsai, leader of the Republic of China \u2013 Taiwan\u2019s formal name \u2013 was on her way to meet the third-highest-ranking official in the US, the House speaker, Kevin McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>On one side was an eclectic mix of Taiwan\u2019s US-based diaspora, Taiwan supporters, professed Chinese supporters of Tsai, and activists from Hong Kong and Tibet. On the other was a group that Christine Lu, a Taiwanese-American, described as \u201cvery coordinated\u201d, and who were waving huge Chinese flags, and pro-Chinese Communist party and anti-Tsai placards. The groups soon came to blows and had to be separated by police.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/07\/taiwan-president-tsai-ing-wen-meeting-us-speaker-divides-opinion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Tsai Ing-wen was visiting the US, her predecessor was in Beijing on a mission to bolster cross-strait relationsWhen Tsai Ing-wen\u2019s presidential motorcade drove into the Ronald Reagan library grounds on Wednesday, opposing camps of protesters line&#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":[50,74,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/54159","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=54159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54160,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54159\/revisions\/54160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}