{"id":64290,"date":"2024-05-22T14:59:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T05:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/22\/china-warns-of-reprisals-against-taiwan-after-presidents-inauguration-speech"},"modified":"2024-05-22T14:59:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T05:59:18","slug":"china-warns-of-reprisals-against-taiwan-after-presidents-inauguration-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64290","title":{"rendered":"China warns of reprisals against Taiwan after president\u2019s inauguration speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lai Ching-te\u2019s inauguration speech has been panned by China\u2019s Taiwan Affairs Office, which labelled the new president a \u201cdangerous separatist\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has warned of undefined reprisals against Taiwan after the inauguration speech of new president Lai Ching-te in which he maintained his government\u2019s position on sovereignty, and did not concede to Beijing\u2019s claim that Taiwan is a province of China.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement late Tuesday, China\u2019s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) called Lai\u2019s speech \u201ca downright confession of Taiwan independence\u201d, and again labeled Lai a \u201cdangerous separatist\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/22\/china-warns-of-reprisals-against-taiwan-after-presidents-inauguration-speech\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lai Ching-te\u2019s inauguration speech has been panned by China\u2019s Taiwan Affairs Office, which labelled the new president a \u201cdangerous separatist\u201d.Beijing has warned of undefined reprisals against Taiwan after the inauguration speech of new president Lai C&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64290","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\/64290","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=64290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64291,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64290\/revisions\/64291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}