{"id":3149,"date":"2024-01-14T05:16:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T05:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=3149"},"modified":"2024-01-14T05:17:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T05:17:00","slug":"the-speaker-of-the-us-house-of-representatives-announced-that-they-will-visit-taiwan-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=3149","title":{"rendered":"The Speaker of the US House of Representatives announced that they will visit Taiwan in May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>14 January 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In May, House Speaker Mike Johnson said that the delegation would be heading to Taipei, after the inauguration of William Lai Ching-te who won Taiwan\u2019s presidential election, to emphasize the continuous commitment of the Congress to security and democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lai Ching-te, a candidate from Taiwan&#8217;s ruling Democratic Progressive Party, has won the island\u2019s presidential election, according to election officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Taiwan issue is an internal matter of China irrespective of changes in the island and Taiwan is part of China, a spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted on the ministry\u2019s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taiwan has been governed by its local administration since 1949 when the Kuomintang\u2019s remaining forces headed by Chiang Kai-shek were defeated in the Chinese Civil War and took refuge on the island. China regards the island as one of its provinces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 January 2024 In May, House Speaker Mike Johnson said that the delegation would be heading to Taipei,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3151,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions\/3151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}