{"id":22886,"date":"2026-05-17T23:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/taiwan-representative-to-us-responds-to-trumps-stance-on-arms-sales\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T23:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:22:08","slug":"taiwan-representative-to-us-responds-to-trumps-stance-on-arms-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/taiwan-representative-to-us-responds-to-trumps-stance-on-arms-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan representative to US responds to Trump\u2019s stance on arms sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan&rsquo;s representative to the US, Alexander Yui, on Sunday said Taipei encourages the Trump administration to deliver on future arms sales after President Trump said he would hold off on a $14 billion arms sale to create leverage in talks with China. Beijing has never formally recognized Taiwan&rsquo;s sovereignty&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5882121-taiwan-trusts-trump-arms-sales\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan&rsquo;s representative to the US, Alexander Yui, on Sunday said Taipei encourages the Trump administration to deliver on future arms sales after President Trump said he would hold off on a $14 billion arms sale to create leverage in talks with China. Beijing has never formally recognized Taiwan&rsquo;s sovereignty&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}