{"id":65676,"date":"2024-07-17T14:18:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T05:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/17\/donald-trump-taiwan-pay-us-defence-china-national-convention"},"modified":"2024-07-17T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T05:18:08","slug":"trump-says-taiwan-should-pay-the-us-for-its-defence-as-it-doesnt-give-us-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65676","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Taiwan should pay the US for its defence as \u2018it doesn\u2019t give us anything\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s interview with Bloomberg will call into question Washington\u2019s support for the island democracy should he win back the White House<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has said Taiwan should pay the US for protection from China, calling into question Washington\u2019s support for the island democracy should he win back the White House in November\u2019s presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Trump\u2019s comments, premier Cho Jung-tai said Taiwan and the US have good relations despite the lack of formal ties, but added that Taiwan was increasing its capabilities to defend itself. .<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/17\/donald-trump-taiwan-pay-us-defence-china-national-convention\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump\u2019s interview with Bloomberg will call into question Washington\u2019s support for the island democracy should he win back the White HouseDonald Trump has said Taiwan should pay the US for protection from China, calling into question Washington\u2019s suppor&#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":[415,74,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65676","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=65676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65677,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65676\/revisions\/65677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}