{"id":60916,"date":"2024-01-03T10:37:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T01:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/03\/taiwans-cat-warrior-former-us-envoy-hsiao-bi-khim-hopes-to-be-next-vice-president"},"modified":"2024-01-03T10:37:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T01:37:19","slug":"taiwans-cat-warrior-former-us-envoy-hsiao-bi-khim-hopes-to-be-next-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60916","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan\u2019s \u2018cat warrior\u2019: former US envoy Hsiao Bi-khim hopes to be next vice-president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DPP hopes Hsiao\u2019s contacts in Washington will help to convince voters that it can boost Taipei\u2019s standing on the world stage and tackle China<\/p>\n<p>The woman hoping to be Taiwan\u2019s next vice-president is a self-proclaimed \u201ccat warrior\u201d who says she will be able to deliver the \u201cglobal vision\u201d needed to tackle tensions with China.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) hopes that Hsiao Bi-khim, who until November was the Taiwanese envoy to the US, will be able to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/30\/taiwan-election-new-president-growing-threat-china\">convince voters<\/a> to back the DPP in the high stakes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/06\/taiwan-presidential-election-opposition-in-chaos-as-china-looms-in-background\">presidential election<\/a> on 13 January.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/03\/taiwans-cat-warrior-former-us-envoy-hsiao-bi-khim-hopes-to-be-next-vice-president\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DPP hopes Hsiao\u2019s contacts in Washington will help to convince voters that it can boost Taipei\u2019s standing on the world stage and tackle ChinaThe woman hoping to be Taiwan\u2019s next vice-president is a self-proclaimed \u201ccat warrior\u201d who says she will be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3706,"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":[41,50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","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\/60916","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\/3706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60917,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60916\/revisions\/60917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}