{"id":64217,"date":"2024-05-20T13:51:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T04:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2024\/may\/20\/lai-ching-te-takes-office-as-taiwans-new-president-in-swearing-in-ceremony-video"},"modified":"2024-05-20T13:51:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T04:51:46","slug":"lai-ching-te-takes-office-as-taiwans-new-president-in-swearing-in-ceremony-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64217","title":{"rendered":"Lai Ching-te takes office as Taiwan&#8217;s new president in swearing-in ceremony \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lai was sworn in at Taiwan&#8217;s presidential office in central Taipei, taking over from Tsai Ing-wen, having served as her vice president for the past four years. His role as Taiwan&#8217;s new president puts him at the helm of the self-ruled island as China ramps up military and political pressure on Taiwan. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/20\/lai-ching-te-taiwan-new-president\">Taiwan\u2019s new president takes office as China says independence and peace \u2018like water and fire\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2024\/may\/20\/lai-ching-te-takes-office-as-taiwans-new-president-in-swearing-in-ceremony-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lai was sworn in at Taiwan&#8217;s presidential office in central Taipei, taking over from Tsai Ing-wen, having served as her vice president for the past four years. His role as Taiwan&#8217;s new president puts him at the helm of the self-ruled island as China ra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64217","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64218,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64217\/revisions\/64218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}