{"id":26992,"date":"2021-01-18T10:08:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T01:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/18\/palaus-new-president-vows-to-stand-up-to-bully-china"},"modified":"2021-01-18T10:08:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T01:08:41","slug":"palaus-new-president-vows-to-stand-up-to-bully-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26992","title":{"rendered":"Palau&#8217;s new president vows to stand up to &#8216;bully&#8217; China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former senator Surangel Whipps Jr promises to stand by allies US and Taiwan when he takes office on Thursday<\/p>\n<p>Palau\u2019s president-elect has vowed to stand up to Chinese \u201cbullying\u201d in the Pacific, and said the small archipelago nation will stand by its alliances with \u201ctrue friends\u201d, the United States and Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-two-year-old Surangel Whipps Jr, a supermarket owner and two-time senator from a prominent Palauan family, will be sworn in as the new president on 21 January, succeeding his brother-in-law Tommy Remengesau Jr.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/18\/palaus-new-president-vows-to-stand-up-to-bully-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former senator Surangel Whipps Jr promises to stand by allies US and Taiwan when he takes office on ThursdayPalau\u2019s president-elect has vowed to stand up to Chinese \u201cbullying\u201d in the Pacific, and said the small archipelago nation will stand by its alli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1752,"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":[41,50,874,1439,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-palau","category-us-news","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\/26992","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\/1752"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26995,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26992\/revisions\/26995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}