{"id":68974,"date":"2025-01-17T15:29:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T06:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/17\/mike-pence-donald-trump-taiwan-support-china-relationship-nuclear-weapons"},"modified":"2025-01-17T15:29:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T06:29:16","slug":"mike-pence-to-trump-cutting-taiwan-support-would-likely-spark-a-new-nuclear-arms-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68974","title":{"rendered":"Mike Pence to Trump: cutting Taiwan support would \u2018likely spark a new nuclear arms race\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former vice-president makes surprise visit to Taipei and predicts that if China annexes its neighbour other Asia-Pacific countries will build nuclear arsenals<\/p>\n<p>Mike Pence called on Donald Trump\u2019s incoming administration to maintain support for Taiwan against the threat of Chinese annexation during a surprise visit to the capital, Taipei, on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>On the eve of Trump\u2019s inauguration for his second term as president, his estranged former vice-president said withdrawing or reducing support for Taiwan \u2013 as Trump has repeatedly indicated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/17\/donald-trump-taiwan-pay-us-defence-china-national-convention\">he is considering<\/a> \u2013 would endanger global security and \u201clikely spark a new nuclear arms race\u201d in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/17\/mike-pence-donald-trump-taiwan-support-china-relationship-nuclear-weapons\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former vice-president makes surprise visit to Taipei and predicts that if China annexes its neighbour other Asia-Pacific countries will build nuclear arsenalsMike Pence called on Donald Trump\u2019s incoming administration to maintain support for Taiwan aga&#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":[41,50,1157,74,554,45,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-mike-pence","category-taiwan","category-trump-administration","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-politics","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68974","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=68974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68975,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68974\/revisions\/68975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}