{"id":69599,"date":"2025-02-21T10:55:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T01:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/21\/donald-trump-russia-ukraine-foreign-policy-impact-taiwan"},"modified":"2025-02-21T10:55:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T01:55:39","slug":"taiwan-holds-its-breath-as-trump-turns-on-ukraine-and-upends-us-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69599","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan holds its breath as Trump turns on Ukraine and upends US foreign policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mood in Taipei is one of wariness as the new US president takes a blowtorch to diplomatic norms and assurances<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a bustling morning at the Dongmen wet market, in inner-city Taipei. Mr Yu is shouting at passersby, trying to offload his boxes of freshly steamed dumplings. In between customers, the self-professed \u201cdumpling king\u201d and his wife, Ms Liao, discuss Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s very positive, energetic,\u201d says Yu, handing flour-covered coins to a customer. Liao chimes in: \u201cThe dancing! Isn\u2019t he in his 80s?\u201d Yu nods in agreement. But asked what Trump means for Taiwan, the elderly couple is less effusive.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/21\/donald-trump-russia-ukraine-foreign-policy-impact-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mood in Taipei is one of wariness as the new US president takes a blowtorch to diplomatic norms and assurancesIt\u2019s a bustling morning at the Dongmen wet market, in inner-city Taipei. Mr Yu is shouting at passersby, trying to offload his boxes of fr&#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":[41,415,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-donald-trump","category-taiwan","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\/69599","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=69599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69600,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69599\/revisions\/69600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}