{"id":75082,"date":"2025-11-08T14:07:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T05:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/08\/taiwan-vice-president-presses-case-at-eu-parliament-for-joint-efforts-to-counter-china"},"modified":"2025-11-08T14:07:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T05:07:01","slug":"taiwan-vice-president-presses-case-at-eu-parliament-for-joint-efforts-to-counter-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75082","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan vice-president presses case at EU parliament for joint efforts to counter China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China angered by the address, criticising Europe for allowing \u2018separatist activities\u2019 to be carried out in parliament building<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s vice-president, Bi-Khim Hsiao, urged the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/europe-news\">EU<\/a> to boost security and trade ties with the self-governing island and support its democracy in the face of growing threats by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a> in a rare address to a group of international lawmakers in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeace in the Taiwan Strait is essential to global stability and economic continuity, and international opposition against unilateral changes to the status quo by force cannot be overstated,\u201d Hsiao told lawmakers assembled for a China-focused conference in the European parliament building.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/08\/taiwan-vice-president-presses-case-at-eu-parliament-for-joint-efforts-to-counter-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China angered by the address, criticising Europe for allowing \u2018separatist activities\u2019 to be carried out in parliament buildingTaiwan\u2019s vice-president, Bi-Khim Hsiao, urged the EU to boost security and trade ties with the self-governing island and suppo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,50,221,530,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-european-union","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\/75082","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75083,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75082\/revisions\/75083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}