{"id":65132,"date":"2024-06-22T11:54:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T02:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/22\/china-threatens-death-penalty-for-taiwan-independence-diehards"},"modified":"2024-06-22T11:54:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T02:54:31","slug":"china-threatens-death-penalty-for-taiwan-independence-diehards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65132","title":{"rendered":"China threatens death penalty for Taiwan independence \u2018diehards\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing ramps up pressure over \u2018crime of secession\u2019 while Taipei says China has no jurisdiction over Taiwan and urges its people not to be intimidated<\/p>\n<p>China has threatened to impose the death penalty in extreme cases for \u201cdiehard\u201d Taiwan independence separatists, a ratcheting up of pressure even though Chinese courts have no jurisdiction on the democratically governed island.<\/p>\n<p>China, which views Taiwan as its own territory, has made no secret of its dislike of President Lai Ching-te, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/20\/lai-ching-te-taiwan-new-president\">took office last month<\/a>, saying he is a \u201cseparatist\u201d, and staged war games shortly after his inauguration.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/22\/china-threatens-death-penalty-for-taiwan-independence-diehards\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing ramps up pressure over \u2018crime of secession\u2019 while Taipei says China has no jurisdiction over Taiwan and urges its people not to be intimidatedChina has threatened to impose the death penalty in extreme cases for \u201cdiehard\u201d Taiwan independence se&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"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-65132","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\/65132","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\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65133,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65132\/revisions\/65133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}