{"id":59407,"date":"2023-08-14T14:41:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T21:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=59407"},"modified":"2023-08-14T14:41:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T21:41:31","slug":"kim-mccaul-statement-on-vp-lais-visit-to-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=59407","title":{"rendered":"Kim, McCaul Statement on VP Lai&#8217;s Visit to the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Washington, DC (August 14, 2023)\u00a0<\/strong> \u2013 House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Indo-Pacific Chairwoman Young Kim (CA-40) and\u00a0Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (TX-10) issued the following statement on Taiwanese Vice President Lai\u2019s visit to the United States.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe welcome Taiwanese Vice President William Lai to the United States, as we had the pleasure of meeting him last April during our travels to Taiwan. Taiwan is a model democracy in the Indo-Pacific and a key U.S. partner. It is important that the United States and its allies stand with Taiwan by expanding our economic and defense relationship to maintain peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and a free and open Indo-Pacific.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/youngkim.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/youngkim.house.gov\/files\/styles\/evo_featured_image\/public\/evo-media-image\/screenshot-2023-07-26-at-7.21.36-pm.png?h=ff9d610d&amp;itok=0qjp0fdv\" alt=\"Rep. Young Kim\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC (August 14, 2023)\u00a0 \u2013&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59409,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59407\/revisions\/59409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}