{"id":73723,"date":"2025-08-29T20:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/29\/us-senators-taiwan-visit-taipei-china-criticism"},"modified":"2025-08-29T20:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:24:09","slug":"taiwan-has-right-to-remain-free-us-senator-says-in-visit-criticised-by-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73723","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan has \u2018right to remain free\u2019, US senator says in visit criticised by China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Wicker and Deb Fischer meet island\u2019s president in Taipei as Beijing says trip sends \u2018gravely wrong signal\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A visit to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/taiwan\">Taiwan<\/a> by two US senators has drawn criticism from China, which claims the island as its own and objects to any contact between officials of the two sides.<\/p>\n<p>The chair of the Senate armed services committee, Roger Wicker, and the Nebraska senator Deb Fischer arrived in Taipei on Friday for a series of high-level meetings with senior Taiwanese leaders. They plan to discuss US-Taiwan relations, regional security and trade and investment, according to the American Institute in Taiwan, Washington\u2019s de facto embassy in lieu of formal diplomatic relations with the self-governing island democracy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/29\/us-senators-taiwan-visit-taipei-china-criticism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Wicker and Deb Fischer meet island\u2019s president in Taipei as Beijing says trip sends \u2018gravely wrong signal\u2019A visit to Taiwan by two US senators has drawn criticism from China, which claims the island as its own and objects to any contact between o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4916,"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":[41,50,1150,74,45,47,2013,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-republicans","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-us-senate","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\/73723","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\/4916"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73724,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73723\/revisions\/73724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}