{"id":68034,"date":"2024-12-01T14:25:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T05:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/01\/taiwan-president-stops-in-hawaii-during-pacific-tour-drawing-ire-from-china"},"modified":"2024-12-01T14:25:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T05:25:33","slug":"taiwan-president-stops-in-hawaii-during-pacific-tour-drawing-ire-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68034","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan president stops in Hawaii during Pacific tour, drawing ire from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lai Ching-te\u2019s US stopover on trip to Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and Palau \u2013 three diplomatic allies of the self-governed island \u2013 prompts Beijing\u2019s protests<\/p>\n<p>The Taiwanese president, Lai Ching-te, has begun a two-day US stopover in Hawaii as part of a Pacific tour after declaring his democratically governed island a key force for promoting global peace and stability.<\/p>\n<p>The trip has sparked fury from China, which views Taiwan as its own territory and opposes any foreign interactions or visits by the island\u2019s leaders. China\u2019s foreign ministry said on Sunday it had lodged \u201cserious protests\u201d with the US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/01\/taiwan-president-stops-in-hawaii-during-pacific-tour-drawing-ire-from-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lai Ching-te\u2019s US stopover on trip to Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and Palau \u2013 three diplomatic allies of the self-governed island \u2013 prompts Beijing\u2019s protestsThe Taiwanese president, Lai Ching-te, has begun a two-day US stopover in Hawaii as part of a Pac&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,50,1456,602,874,1439,74,563,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hawaii","category-marshall-islands","category-pacific-islands","category-palau","category-taiwan","category-tuvalu","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68034","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68035,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68034\/revisions\/68035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}