{"id":64238,"date":"2024-05-20T17:14:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T08:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2024\/may\/20\/taiwans-new-president-calls-on-china-to-stop-making-threats-video"},"modified":"2024-05-20T17:14:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T08:14:07","slug":"taiwans-new-president-calls-on-china-to-stop-making-threats-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64238","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan&#8217;s new president calls on China to stop making threats \u2013\u00a0video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his first address since being inaugurated as president, Lai Ching-te said peace was the &#8216;only option&#8217; and called on China to stop making political and military threats towards Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Lai said the new government would make no concessions on democracy and freedom and called for cooperation between China and Taiwan, starting with tourism and student links. He continued: &#8216;Let us together pursue peace and mutual prosperity&#8217;<\/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 and calls on China to cease its hostile actions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2024\/may\/20\/taiwans-new-president-calls-on-china-to-stop-making-threats-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his first address since being inaugurated as president, Lai Ching-te said peace was the &#8216;only option&#8217; and called on China to stop making political and military threats towards Taiwan.Lai said the new government would make no concessions on democracy&#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-64238","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\/64238","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=64238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64239,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64238\/revisions\/64239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}