{"id":18103,"date":"2020-05-12T13:27:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T04:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/12\/new-zealand-backs-taiwan-joining-the-who-despite-china-rebuke"},"modified":"2020-05-12T13:27:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T04:27:14","slug":"new-zealand-backs-taiwan-joining-the-who-despite-china-rebuke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18103","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand backs Taiwan joining the WHO despite China rebuke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign minister says \u2018we have to stand up for ourselves\u2019 after Beijing protests against calls for Taiwan to join the WHO as an observer<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s foreign minister has said the country has to stand up for itself after China warned its call for Taiwan\u2019s participation in the World Health Organization (WHO) could damage bilateral ties.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan, with the strong support of the United States, has stepped up its lobbying to be allowed to take part as an observer at next week\u2019s World Health Assembly (WHA), the WHO\u2019s decision-making body \u2013 a move that has angered China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/12\/new-zealand-backs-taiwan-joining-the-who-despite-china-rebuke\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign minister says \u2018we have to stand up for ourselves\u2019 after Beijing protests against calls for Taiwan to join the WHO as an observerCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand\u2019s foreign minister has said the country has &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,50,1069,346,56,1045],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-health","category-new-zealand","category-world-health-organization"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18103","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18104,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18103\/revisions\/18104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}