{"id":151550,"date":"2026-05-18T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151550"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:00:05","slug":"trumps-taiwan-independence-comments-a-blow-to-william-lai-and-ruling-dpp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=151550","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Taiwan independence comments: a blow to William Lai and ruling DPP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostDonald Trump\u2019s comment that he is \u201cnot looking to have somebody go independent\u201d has sparked debate in Taiwan over whether it undermines the ruling party\u2019s pro-independence platform.<br \/>\nTrump made the remark after last week\u2019s summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, where Taiwan emerged as one of the most sensitive issues in Sino-US relations.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m not looking to have somebody go independent,\u201d Trump said in an interview with Fox News aired on Friday, adding that the United States was \u201c9,500&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3354002\/does-trumps-not-looking-independence-remark-hurt-taiwans-ruling-party?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostDonald Trump\u2019s comment that he is \u201cnot looking to have somebody go independent\u201d has sparked debate in Taiwan over whether it undermines the ruling&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151550"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}