{"id":17488,"date":"2020-04-24T12:24:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T03:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/24\/pro-china-kiribati-president-loses-majority-over-switch-from-taiwan"},"modified":"2020-04-24T12:24:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T03:24:36","slug":"pro-china-kiribati-president-loses-majority-over-switch-from-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17488","title":{"rendered":"Pro-China Kiribati president loses majority over switch from Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Party that switched recognition from Taiwan to China last year lost majority in elections this week over handling of the move<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s diplomatic ambitions in the Pacific suffered a setback on Wednesday when the party that switched recognition from Taiwan to China last year lost its majority in parliament over its handling of the move.<\/p>\n<p>In the second round of parliamentary elections, the governing party and allies won 22 seats out of 45, dealing a blow to President Taneti Maamau, who previously enjoyed a comfortable majority of 31.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/24\/pro-china-kiribati-president-loses-majority-over-switch-from-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Party that switched recognition from Taiwan to China last year lost majority in elections this week over handling of the moveChina\u2019s diplomatic ambitions in the Pacific suffered a setback on Wednesday when the party that switched recognition from Taiwa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1240,"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-17488","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\/17488","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\/1240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17489,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17488\/revisions\/17489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}