{"id":77428,"date":"2026-05-21T11:07:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/21\/trump-taiwan-president-china-relations"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:07:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:07:40","slug":"trump-claims-he-will-speak-to-taiwans-president-departing-from-decades-long-diplomatic-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77428","title":{"rendered":"Trump claims he will speak to Taiwan\u2019s president, departing from decades-long diplomatic norms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US and Taiwanese presidents have not spoken directly since Washington shifted diplomatic recognition to Beijing from Taipei in 1979<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would speak to Taiwan\u2019s President Lai Ching-te, an unprecedented move for a US leader that could roil US relations with China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll speak to him,\u201d the US president told reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland before boarding Air Force One when asked about Lai. \u201cI speak to everybody \u2026 We\u2019ll work on that, the Taiwan problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/21\/trump-taiwan-president-china-relations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US and Taiwanese presidents have not spoken directly since Washington shifted diplomatic recognition to Beijing from Taipei in 1979Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would speak to Taiwan\u2019s President Lai Ching-te, an unprecedented move for a US leader t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5311,"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":[50,415,74,45,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy","category-xi-jinping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77428","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\/5311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77429,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77428\/revisions\/77429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}