{"id":2805,"date":"2019-01-08T03:47:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T03:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2019-01-08T03:47:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T03:47:58","slug":"taiwan-president-calls-for-international-support-to-defend-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2019\/01\/08\/taiwan-president-calls-for-international-support-to-defend-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan president calls for international support to defend democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen called on Saturday for international support to defend the self-ruled island&#8217;s democracy and way of life in the face of renewed threats from China.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tsai&#8217;s comments came days after\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20190102-china-xi-jinping-says-taiwan-reunification-inevitable-military-force\">Chinese President Xi Jinping<\/a>\u00a0said nobody could change the fact that Taiwan was part of China, and that people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should seek &#8220;reunification&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We hope that the international community takes it seriously and can voice support and help us,&#8221; Tsai told reporters in Taipei, referring to threats by China to use force to bring&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/taiwan\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taiwan&nbsp;<\/a>under its control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the international community did not support a democratic country that was under threat, &#8220;we might have to ask which country might be next,?&#8221; Tsai added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taiwan is China&#8217;s most sensitive issue and is claimed by Beijing as its sacred territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xi has stepped up pressure on the democratic island since Tsai from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20160520-taiwan-first-female-president-inauguration-tsai-ing-wen\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">became president in 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Xi said on Wednesday that China reserves the right to use force to bring Taiwan under its control but will strive to achieve peaceful &#8220;reunification&#8221; with the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response, Tsai has said the island would not accept a &#8220;one country, two systems&#8221; political arrangement with China, while stressing all cross-Strait negotiations needed to be carried out on a government-to-government basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tsai on Saturday also urged China to have a &#8220;correct understanding&#8221; of what Taiwanese think and said actions such as political bullying were unhelpful in cross-strait relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20190105-taiwan-president-calls-international-support-defend-democracy-china\">https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20190105-taiwan-president-calls-international-support-defend-democracy-china<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen called on Saturday for international support to defend the self-ruled island&#8217;s democracy and way of life in the face of renewed threats from China. Tsai&#8217;s comments came days after\u00a0Chinese President Xi Jinping\u00a0said nobody could change the fact that Taiwan was part of China, and that people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should seek &#8220;reunification&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2806,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions\/2806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}