{"id":27850,"date":"2021-02-05T06:38:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T21:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/04\/guyana-taiwan-office-agreement-beijing-criticism"},"modified":"2021-02-05T06:38:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T21:38:09","slug":"guyana-calls-off-plan-for-taiwan-ties-after-beijing-criticizes-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27850","title":{"rendered":"Guyana calls off plan for Taiwan ties after Beijing criticizes &#8216;mistake&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign ministry said it terminated agreement with Taiwan to open office after Beijing urged country to \u2018correct their mistake\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Guyana has abruptly terminated an agreement with Taiwan to open an office in the South American country, hours after China urged Georgetown to \u201ccorrect their mistake\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Thursday, Taiwan\u2019s foreign ministry announced it had signed an agreement with Guyana to open a Taiwan office \u2013 effectively a de facto embassy for the island that China claims as its sovereign territory with no right to diplomatic ties.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/04\/guyana-taiwan-office-agreement-beijing-criticism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign ministry said it terminated agreement with Taiwan to open office after Beijing urged country to \u2018correct their mistake\u2019Guyana has abruptly terminated an agreement with Taiwan to open an office in the South American country, hours after China ur&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1883,"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":[246,41,50,1890,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-guyana","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\/27850","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\/1883"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27852,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27850\/revisions\/27852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}