{"id":67205,"date":"2024-10-12T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T04:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/12\/foreign-office-uk-visit-taiwan-tsai-ing-wen"},"modified":"2024-10-12T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T04:00:15","slug":"foreign-office-asked-for-uk-visit-by-taiwan-ex-president-to-be-deferred-to-not-anger-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67205","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Office \u2018asked for UK visit by Taiwan ex-president to be deferred\u2019 to not anger China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Request to postpone Tsai Ing-wen\u2019s trip came before \u2018goodwill visit\u2019 to China by David Lammy next week<\/p>\n<p>The UK Foreign Office (FCDO) asked for a visit by the former Taiwanese president to be postponed so as not to anger China ahead of a trip by David Lammy, the Guardian has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Lammy is due to travel to China next week for high-level meetings in his first trip to the country as foreign secretary.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/12\/foreign-office-uk-visit-taiwan-tsai-ing-wen\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Request to postpone Tsai Ing-wen\u2019s trip came before \u2018goodwill visit\u2019 to China by David Lammy next weekThe UK Foreign Office (FCDO) asked for a visit by the former Taiwanese president to be postponed so as not to anger China ahead of a trip b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155,"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":[41,50,2675,319,902,4,74,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-david-lammy","category-foreign-policy","category-labour","category-politics","category-taiwan","category-uk-news","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\/67205","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\/4155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67206,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67205\/revisions\/67206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}