{"id":30115,"date":"2021-03-24T14:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/24\/how-taiwan-triumphed-over-covid-as-uk-faltered"},"modified":"2021-03-24T19:17:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T10:17:26","slug":"how-taiwan-triumphed-over-covid-as-uk-faltered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30115","title":{"rendered":"How Taiwan triumphed over Covid as the UK faltered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taipei\u2019s success shows lives might have been saved had the UK government acted differently <\/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>Along central Taipei\u2019s busy Yongkang Street crowds spill out of restaurants and bars every evening, mingling with people queueing outside popular eateries for a tiny table to cram around with groups of friends. Children out way past their bedtime run amok over the play equipment in a nearby park, shrieking and laughing as their parents chat nearby.<\/p>\n<p>In London, it would be unthinkable. In the Taiwanese capital, it is just another spring evening.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/24\/how-taiwan-triumphed-over-covid-as-uk-faltered\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taipei\u2019s success shows lives might have been saved had the UK government acted differently Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage Along central Taipei\u2019s busy Yongkang Street crowds spill out of restaurants and bars every evening, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2032,"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":[41,531,1066,4,74,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-boris-johnson","category-coronavirus","category-politics","category-taiwan","category-uk-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\/30115","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\/2032"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30125,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30115\/revisions\/30125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}