{"id":19616,"date":"2020-06-23T11:52:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T02:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/23\/pro-china-president-wins-re-election-in-kiribati"},"modified":"2020-06-23T11:52:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T02:52:28","slug":"boost-for-beijing-pro-china-president-wins-re-election-in-kiribati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19616","title":{"rendered":"Boost for Beijing: pro-China president wins re-election in Kiribati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taneti Maamau, who switched Kiribati\u2019s allegiance from Taipei to Beijing last year, resoundingly re-elected<\/p>\n<p>Taneti Maamau was re-elected on Monday to a second term as Kiribati\u2019s president just two months after losing his parliamentary majority over his surprise move to recognise China and cut official relations with Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>The flip in September last year, four days after an identical switch by Solomon Islands, left Taiwan with only 15 countries that recognise it as a separate country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/23\/pro-china-president-wins-re-election-in-kiribati\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taneti Maamau, who switched Kiribati\u2019s allegiance from Taipei to Beijing last year, resoundingly re-electedTaneti Maamau was re-elected on Monday to a second term as Kiribati\u2019s president just two months after losing his parliamentary majority over his &#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":[41,50,591,874,74,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-kiribati","category-pacific-islands","category-taiwan","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19616","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=19616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19617,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19616\/revisions\/19617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}