{"id":61118,"date":"2024-01-12T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T03:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/audio\/2024\/jan\/12\/the-chinese-shadow-over-taiwans-election-podcast"},"modified":"2024-01-12T12:00:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T03:00:19","slug":"the-chinese-shadow-over-taiwans-election-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61118","title":{"rendered":"The Chinese shadow over Taiwan\u2019s election \u2013 podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How are presidential candidates in Taiwan responding to the ongoing threat of invasion from China? Amy Hawkins reports<\/p>\n<p>On the eve of Taiwan\u2019s presidential and legislative elections, the Guardian\u2019s senior China correspondent, <strong>Amy Hawkins<\/strong>, tells <strong>Michael Safi<\/strong> why relations with China have dominated the campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>In his new year\u2019s message, China\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, reiterated his call for the \u201creunification\u201d of China and Taiwan, an idea that the main three political parties in Taiwan reject. The Chinese Communist party has never ruled in Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/audio\/2024\/jan\/12\/the-chinese-shadow-over-taiwans-election-podcast\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How are presidential candidates in Taiwan responding to the ongoing threat of invasion from China? Amy Hawkins reportsOn the eve of Taiwan\u2019s presidential and legislative elections, the Guardian\u2019s senior China correspondent, Amy Hawkins, tells Michael S&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"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-61118","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\/61118","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61119,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61118\/revisions\/61119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}