{"id":36853,"date":"2026-05-17T21:45:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T19:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/taiwans-president-says-his-country-does-not-belong-to-beijing\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T21:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T19:45:23","slug":"taiwans-president-says-his-country-does-not-belong-to-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/taiwans-president-says-his-country-does-not-belong-to-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan&#8217;s president says his country does not belong to Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Presidenti-i-Tajvanit-Lai-Ching.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>Taiwanese President Lai Ching said Sunday that the phrase &#8220;Taiwan independence&#8221; means the island does not belong to Beijing and that only the Taiwanese people can decide its future.<\/p>\n<p>Lai&#8217;s comments, echoing his previous positions, come days after President Donald Trump met with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in Beijing for a summit that raised concerns in Taiwan over US support for the island.<\/p>\n<p>China regards democratically self-governing Taiwan as its territory and has not even ruled out using force to bring it under Beijing&#8217;s control, especially if it deems the island to be seeking formal independence.<\/p>\n<p>Well, speaking in Taipei, Lai said the Taiwanese government defends the position that Taiwan&#8217;s sovereignty cannot be violated or annexed, and that its future should be decided by its people. his.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese President Lai Ching said Sunday that the phrase &#8220;Taiwan independence&#8221; means the island does not belong to Beijing and that only the Taiwanese people can decide its future. Lai&#8217;s comments, echoing his previous positions, come days after President Donald Trump met with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in Beijing for a summit that raised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-36853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":4,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36855,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36853\/revisions\/36855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}