{"id":63227,"date":"2024-04-10T21:25:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T12:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/10\/china-taiwan-destined-for-reunification-xi-jinping-tells-ma-ying-jeou"},"modified":"2024-04-10T21:25:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T12:25:04","slug":"china-and-taiwan-are-destined-for-reunification-xi-tells-former-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63227","title":{"rendered":"China and Taiwan are destined for \u2018reunification\u2019, Xi tells former president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese leader using meeting with Ma Ying-jeou to promote peaceful \u2018reunion\u2019 as only alternative to annexation, say analysts<\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping has met the former Taiwan president Ma Ying-jeou, in what analysts said was an attempt to promote peaceful unification as the only alternative to military annexation of Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Ma, who was leading a student delegation to China, met Xi in Beijing at the Great Hall of the People, a venue typically reserved for foreign leaders meeting with senior Chinese officials. Xi used the meeting to emphasise his belief that Taiwan and China were destined for what he terms \u201creunification\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/10\/china-taiwan-destined-for-reunification-xi-jinping-tells-ma-ying-jeou\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese leader using meeting with Ma Ying-jeou to promote peaceful \u2018reunion\u2019 as only alternative to annexation, say analystsXi Jinping has met the former Taiwan president Ma Ying-jeou, in what analysts said was an attempt to promote peaceful unificatio&#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":[41,50,74,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63227","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=63227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63228,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63227\/revisions\/63228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}