{"id":57518,"date":"2023-08-13T13:53:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T04:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/13\/china-vows-vigorous-response-to-us-visit-by-taiwan-vice-president"},"modified":"2023-08-14T10:23:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T01:23:48","slug":"china-vows-vigorous-response-to-us-visit-by-taiwan-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57518","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan vice-president says \u2018don\u2019t be afraid\u2019 to fight authoritarianism in New York speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Lai issues global appeal during US stopover after China denounces him as a \u2018troublemaker\u2019  <\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s vice-president has urged the world to stand up against the \u201cincreased threat from authoritarianism\u201d and reiterated a willingness to talk to China, in a speech made in New York during a brief US stopover condemned by Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>William Lai, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/24\/taiwans-choice-who-will-replace-tsai-ing-wen-as-president-amid-china-tensions\">a frontrunner to be Taiwan\u2019s next president<\/a> at elections in January, said in New York on Sunday: \u201cIf Taiwan is safe, the world is safe, if the Taiwan Strait is peaceful, then the world is peaceful,\u201d according to a read out from Taiwan\u2019s presidential office.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/13\/china-vows-vigorous-response-to-us-visit-by-taiwan-vice-president\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Lai issues global appeal during US stopover after China denounces him as a \u2018troublemaker\u2019  Taiwan\u2019s vice-president has urged the world to stand up against the \u201cincreased threat from authoritarianism\u201d and reiterated a willingness to talk to Chin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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-57518","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\/57518","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57548,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57518\/revisions\/57548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}