{"id":9148,"date":"2021-01-16T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3117910\/what-will-joe-bidens-presidency-mean-us-taiwan-relations"},"modified":"2021-01-16T10:00:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T10:00:16","slug":"what-will-joe-bidens-presidency-mean-for-us-taiwan-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/16\/what-will-joe-bidens-presidency-mean-for-us-taiwan-relations\/","title":{"rendered":"What will Joe Biden\u2019s presidency mean for US-Taiwan relations?"},"content":{"rendered":"Taiwan-US relations warmed to an unprecedented degree during Donald Trump\u2019s presidency despite Beijing\u2019s repeated protests, but it remains to be seen if this can be maintained under Joe Biden.The first shift in Taipei\u2019s favour happened even before Trump took office, in December 2016, when he took a call from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen to congratulate him on his election victory and discuss the two sides\u2019 economic and security ties.\u00a0The 10-minute phone conversation was the first of its\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3117910\/what-will-joe-bidens-presidency-mean-us-taiwan-relations\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan-US relations warmed to an unprecedented degree during Donald Trump\u2019s presidency despite Beijing\u2019s repeated protests, but it remains to be seen if this can be maintained under Joe Biden.The first shift in Taipei\u2019s favour happened even before Trum&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":769,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/769"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9149,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9148\/revisions\/9149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}