{"id":22365,"date":"2020-09-03T16:37:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T07:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/03\/taiwan-demotes-republic-of-china-reference-on-new-passports"},"modified":"2020-09-03T16:37:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T07:37:23","slug":"taiwan-demotes-republic-of-china-reference-on-new-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22365","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan demotes &#8216;Republic of China&#8217; reference on new passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New design aims to avoid confusion with mainland, says government, though opposition criticises \u2018ideological move\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan has revealed the new design of its passport, minimising the words \u201cRepublic of China\u201d and eschewing <a href=\"https:\/\/taiwanpassport.tw\/vote\/international_standard\/page=1\">popular submissions<\/a> featuring pictures of animals, food and bubble tea.<\/p>\n<p>The new passport, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taiwannews.com.tw\/en\/news\/4000030\">unveiled on Wednesday<\/a>, no longer has large English lettering spelling out \u201cRepublic of China\u201d, having moved the words into a small design feature around the national emblem. The \u201cTaiwan\u201d lettering is enlarged.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/03\/taiwan-demotes-republic-of-china-reference-on-new-passports\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New design aims to avoid confusion with mainland, says government, though opposition criticises \u2018ideological move\u2019Taiwan has revealed the new design of its passport, minimising the words \u201cRepublic of China\u201d and eschewing popular submissions featuring p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[41,50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","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\/22365","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22366,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22365\/revisions\/22366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}