{"id":71636,"date":"2025-05-08T15:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T06:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/08\/taiwan-president-europe-second-world-war"},"modified":"2025-05-09T06:54:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T21:54:41","slug":"taiwan-president-says-country-faces-similar-threat-to-europe-before-ww2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71636","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan faces similar threat to Europe in 1930s, president says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lai Ching-te says \u2018message of history is clear\u2019 as Taiwan for first time officially commemorates end of second world war<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s president, Lai Ching-te, has compared his nation to the European countries heading for conflict with Nazi Germany in the 1930s, in a punchy speech commemorating the end of the second world war in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEighty years after the end of the European war, the message of history is clear. Today, 80 years later, we share the same values \u200b\u200band face similar challenges as many of the democracies that participated in the European war,\u201d Lai said to a group of foreign dignitaries gathered in Taipei.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/08\/taiwan-president-europe-second-world-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lai Ching-te says \u2018message of history is clear\u2019 as Taiwan for first time officially commemorates end of second world warTaiwan\u2019s president, Lai Ching-te, has compared his nation to the European countries heading for conflict with Nazi Germany in the 19&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[41,50,74,3307,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-ve-day","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\/71636","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71658,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71636\/revisions\/71658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}