{"id":18995,"date":"2018-11-19T10:50:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T10:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=18995"},"modified":"2018-11-19T10:51:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T10:51:26","slug":"taiwan-president-defends-pro-independence-film-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=18995","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan president defends pro-independence film award winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Beijing, Nov 19 (DIN NEWS)<\/b> Taiwan&#8217;s president has expressed her support for the prestigious Golden Horse film awards after a pro-Taiwan independence director&#8217;s speech ignited controversy in mainland China.<\/p>\n<p>President Tsai Ing-wen said in a Facebook post Sunday that &#8220;we have never accepted the term &#8216;Chinese Taiwan&#8217; &#8230; Taiwan is just Taiwan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She added that the Golden Horse Awards, akin to a Chinese-language Oscars, highlighted the freedoms that set Taiwan apart from China.<\/p>\n<p>Director Fu Yue said during her acceptance speech Saturday that her biggest hope was for &#8220;our country&#8221; to be regarded as an &#8220;independent entity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her film &#8220;Our Youth in Taiwan&#8221; won best documentary.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan split from mainland China amid civil war in 1949, but Beijing considers the self-ruled island part of its territory.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese netizens strongly criticized Fu on her Facebook page.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing, Nov 19 (DIN NEWS) Taiwan&#8217;s president has expressed her support for the prestigious Golden Horse film awards after a pro-Taiwan independence director&#8217;s speech ignited controversy in mainland China. President Tsai Ing-wen said in a Facebook post Sunday that &#8220;we have never accepted the term &#8216;Chinese Taiwan&#8217; &#8230; Taiwan is just Taiwan.&#8221; She added that the Golden Horse Awards, akin to a Chinese-language Oscars, highlighted the freedoms that set Taiwan apart from China. Director Fu Yue said during her acceptance speech Saturday that her biggest hope was for &#8220;our country&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18997,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18995\/revisions\/18997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}