{"id":64212,"date":"2024-05-20T10:34:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T01:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/20\/lai-ching-te-taiwan-new-president"},"modified":"2024-05-20T17:30:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T08:30:21","slug":"taiwans-new-president-takes-office-as-china-says-independence-and-peace-like-water-and-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64212","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan\u2019s new president takes office and calls on China to cease hostile actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lai Ching-te uses inauguration speech to push for peace in the region and says future of Taiwan important to future of the world<\/p>\n<p>Lai Ching-te has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/13\/taiwan-ruling-partys-lai-ching-te-wins-presidential-election\">sworn in<\/a> as Taiwan\u2019s new president, urging China to \u201ccease their political and military intimidation against Taiwan\u201d and to keep the world free from the fear of more war.<\/p>\n<p>Lai was inaugurated on Monday morning at the Japanese colonial-era presidential office in central Taipei, taking over from Tsai Ing-wen, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/20\/lai-ching-te-taiwan-new-president\">eight years in power<\/a> saw a deterioration in relations with Beijing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/20\/lai-ching-te-taiwan-new-president\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lai Ching-te uses inauguration speech to push for peace in the region and says future of Taiwan important to future of the worldLai Ching-te has been sworn in as Taiwan\u2019s new president, urging China to \u201ccease their political and military intimidation a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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-64212","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\/64212","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64237,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64212\/revisions\/64237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}