{"id":71886,"date":"2025-05-20T14:36:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T05:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/20\/taiwan-president-calls-for-peace-and-dialogue-with-china-amid-heightened-military-activity"},"modified":"2025-05-20T14:36:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T05:36:43","slug":"taiwan-president-calls-for-peace-and-dialogue-with-china-amid-heightened-military-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71886","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan president calls for peace and dialogue with China amid heightened military activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lai Ching-te says \u2018peace is priceless\u2019 and war has \u2018no winners\u2019 as he marks year in office<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s president has reiterated calls for peace and dialogue with China as he marked one year in office, amid heightened Chinese military activity and worsening political division at home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/19\/new-taiwan-president-lai-ching-te-profile-bio-details\">Lai Ching-te<\/a>, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/20\/lai-ching-te-taiwan-new-president\">inaugurated a year ago<\/a>, told reporters on Tuesday that a war would have \u201cno winners\u201d, but Taiwan would continue to strengthen its defences to ward off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/28\/china-defence-ministry-taiwan-threat\">a Chinese invasion or attempt to annex it by force<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/20\/taiwan-president-calls-for-peace-and-dialogue-with-china-amid-heightened-military-activity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lai Ching-te says \u2018peace is priceless\u2019 and war has \u2018no winners\u2019 as he marks year in officeTaiwan\u2019s president has reiterated calls for peace and dialogue with China as he marked one year in office, amid heightened Chinese military activity and worsening&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4763,"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":[41,50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/71886","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\/4763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71887,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71886\/revisions\/71887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}