{"id":404933,"date":"2024-01-17T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=404933"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Radewagen-s-response-regarding-Taiwan-and-Pacific-Island-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Radewagen-s-response-regarding-Taiwan-and-Pacific-Island-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Radewagen\u2019s response regarding  Taiwan and Pacific Island nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014<\/strong>Delegate Uifa\u2019atali Amata Radewagen (R-A. Samoa), who serves in the House Foreign Affairs Committee, including as vice chairman of the Subcommittee on the Indo-Pacific, as well as a co-chairman of the Pacific Islands Caucus, released the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe peoples of the Pacific Islands value and support the right to self-determination and democratic elections, for themselves and their neighbors. I have a lifetime of ties and experience within the Pacific islands, and I\u2019m confident that by far most leadership throughout the Pacific Islands fully supports a strong U.S. commitment in the region, and appreciates Taiwan\u2019s role in our many economic and security partnerships that provide enduring regional stability, peace and prosperity. The Pacific Islands have a widespread desire to stand with the U.S. and our key allies, which includes our friendship to the people of Taiwan. I am certain that the decision by Nauru did not take our professional diplomats by surprise, and will be an exception in the Pacific Islands. Congratulations again to Taiwan president-elect Lai and vice president-elect Hsiao.\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\/88294b24f10e72c952033c64c808a838.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Uifa\u2019atali Amata Radewagen<\/p>\n<p>-U.S. House Office of Photography<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014Delegate Uifa\u2019atali Amata Radewagen (R-A. Samoa), who serves in the House Foreign Affairs Committee,&#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-404933","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\/404933","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=404933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}