{"id":12689,"date":"2020-01-07T14:42:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T05:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/07\/china-xi-jinping-praises-kiribati-for-switch-taiwan"},"modified":"2020-01-07T14:42:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T05:42:29","slug":"on-right-side-of-history-xi-jinping-praises-kiribati-for-switch-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=12689","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;On right side of history&#8217;: Xi Jinping praises Kiribati for switch to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese president hails leader of South Pacific nation after it severed diplomatic ties with Taiwan<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s president Xi Jinping has praised Kiribati for being \u201con the right side of history\u201d after the two countries signed a memorandum of understanding in China on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement, which signs the Pacific nation up to China\u2019s belt and road initiative, comes after Kiribati severed diplomatic relations with Taiwan and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/20\/taiwan-loses-second-ally-in-a-week-as-kiribati-switches-to-china\">established them with China in September last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/07\/china-xi-jinping-praises-kiribati-for-switch-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese president hails leader of South Pacific nation after it severed diplomatic ties with TaiwanChina\u2019s president Xi Jinping has praised Kiribati for being \u201con the right side of history\u201d after the two countries signed a memorandum of understanding i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":827,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,591,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-kiribati","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/827"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12690,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12689\/revisions\/12690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}