{"id":67102,"date":"2024-10-06T12:40:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T03:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/06\/mainland-china-not-the-motherland-says-taiwans-president-because-our-republic-is-older"},"modified":"2024-10-07T09:30:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T00:30:20","slug":"mainland-china-not-the-motherland-says-taiwans-president-because-our-republic-is-older","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67102","title":{"rendered":"Communist China not the motherland, says Taiwan\u2019s president, because our republic is older"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lai Ching-te argues the reverse may be true because the Republic of China \u2013 the mantle that nationalists carried with them to Taiwan \u2013 predates the  People\u2019s Republic<\/p>\n<p>It is \u201cimpossible\u201d for the People\u2019s Republic of China to become Taiwan\u2019s motherland because Taiwan has older political roots, the island\u2019s president has said.<\/p>\n<p>Lai Ching-te, who took office in May, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/31\/china-taiwan-ipac-summit-taipei-bullying-tactics\">condemned by Beijing<\/a> as a separatist. He rejects Beijing\u2019s sovereignty claims, saying the island is a country called the Republic of China that traces its origins back to the 1911 revolution overthrowing the last imperial dynasty.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/06\/mainland-china-not-the-motherland-says-taiwans-president-because-our-republic-is-older\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lai Ching-te argues the reverse may be true because the Republic of China \u2013 the mantle that nationalists carried with them to Taiwan \u2013 predates the  People\u2019s RepublicIt is \u201cimpossible\u201d for the People\u2019s Republic of China to become Taiwan\u2019s motherland be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4432,"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-67102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67102","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\/4432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67121,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67102\/revisions\/67121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}