{"id":98007,"date":"2026-05-20T11:29:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=98007"},"modified":"2026-05-20T11:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:29:43","slug":"if-they-spoke-taiwan-president-would-tell-trump-china-was-undermining-stability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/if-they-spoke-taiwan-president-would-tell-trump-china-was-undermining-stability\/","title":{"rendered":"If they spoke, Taiwan president would tell Trump China was undermining stability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI: Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Wednesday that if he got the opportunity to speak to US President Donald Trump he would say China was undermining peace and causing tensions in the region and that nobody has the right to \u201cannex\u201d the island.<\/p>\n<p>A conversation between the two presidents has not taken place since Washington shifted diplomatic recognition to Beijing from Taipei in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Lai faces not only pressure from China, which claims Taiwan as its own and calls him a \u201cseparatist,\u201d but also from the US, traditionally its most important supporter.<\/p>\n<p>Last week following a summit with China\u2019s Xi Jinping, Trump said he was undecided on further arms sales to Taiwan, which he said were \u200ca \u201cgood negotiating chip\u201d \u200cand that he was \u201cnot looking to have somebody say, \u2018Let\u2019s go independent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump also \u200csuggested \u2060he might call \u2060Lai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI: Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Wednesday that if he got the opportunity to speak to US President Donald Trump he would say China was undermining peace and causing tensions in the region and that nobody has the right to \u201cannex\u201d the island. A conversation between the two presidents has not taken place since &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":98019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98020,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98007\/revisions\/98020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}