{"id":403944,"date":"2024-01-15T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=403944"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Radewagen-welcomes-Taiwan-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Radewagen-welcomes-Taiwan-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Radewagen welcomes Taiwan elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014<\/strong>Delegate Uifa\u2019atali Amata Radewagen (R-A. Samoa) is welcoming the completion of Taiwan\u2019s democratic elections and congratulating the elected leadership that will be working with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlong with my colleagues in Congress, I look forward to working with President-elect Lai and Vice President-elect Hsiao for the economic and security priorities that Taiwan and the United States share,\u201d said Radewagen, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, including vice chairman of its Subcommittee on the Indo-Pacific. \u201cDemocratically elected leadership and constitutional representative governments are always essential to freedom, and Taiwan\u2019s elections are another example in the region. Taiwan is an important economic partnership with the U.S. and other Pacific nations, and I\u2019ve enjoyed multiple visits to their beautiful island, meeting with officials and seeing their wonderful culture. Congratulations to the people of Taiwan and we welcome their ongoing friendship with the people of the United States.\u201d <em><strong><em>(PR)<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/f1796149918672b5e7b9c95d793af9f1.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Delegate Uifa\u2019atali Amata Radewagen (R-A. Samoa) in Taiwan with Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>-CONTRIBUTED PHOTO<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014Delegate Uifa\u2019atali Amata Radewagen (R-A. Samoa) is welcoming the completion of Taiwan\u2019s democratic elections&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}