{"id":59037,"date":"2023-10-08T13:51:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T04:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/08\/china-tiananmen-critic-stuck-in-taiwan-transit-lounge-granted-asylum-in-canada"},"modified":"2023-10-08T13:51:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T04:51:36","slug":"china-tiananmen-critic-stuck-in-taiwan-transit-lounge-granted-asylum-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59037","title":{"rendered":"China Tiananmen critic stuck in Taiwan transit lounge granted asylum in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chen Siming spent two weeks living in the transit area in Taipei\u2019s international airport waiting to resettle<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese dissident who was stuck inside a Taiwanese airport transit area after he refused to fly on to China says he has arrived in Canada after being granted asylum.<\/p>\n<p>Chen Siming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/24\/china-dissident-taiwan-chen-siming-willing-to-wait-airport-transit-lounge-tiananmen\">arrived in Taipei on 22 September<\/a>, after travelling through Thailand and Laos. When he landed at Taipei\u2019s international airport he refused to reboard, requesting assistance to resettle in a third country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/08\/china-tiananmen-critic-stuck-in-taiwan-transit-lounge-granted-asylum-in-canada\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chen Siming spent two weeks living in the transit area in Taipei\u2019s international airport waiting to resettleA Chinese dissident who was stuck inside a Taiwanese airport transit area after he refused to fly on to China says he has arrived in Canada afte&#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":[244,50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-china","category-taiwan","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\/59037","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=59037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59038,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59037\/revisions\/59038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}