{"id":33078,"date":"2021-06-14T13:15:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T04:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/14\/how-taiwan-struggle-for-covid-vaccines-is-inflaming-tensions-with-china"},"modified":"2021-06-14T13:15:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T04:15:18","slug":"how-taiwans-struggle-for-covid-vaccines-is-inflaming-tensions-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33078","title":{"rendered":"How Taiwan\u2019s struggle for Covid vaccines is inflaming tensions with China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As island faces new outbreak and mistrust of Chinese jabs, Beijing objects to donations from US and Japan<\/p>\n<p>Vaccines are the latest flashpoint inflaming cross-strait tensions between China and Taiwan, as the latter tries to fend off its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/07\/a-victim-of-its-own-success-how-taiwan-failed-to-plan-for-a-major-covid-outbreak\">worst coronavirus outbreak<\/a> since the pandemic began with a mostly unvaccinated population and the former rails against outside assistance from Taipei\u2019s allies.<\/p>\n<p>Global vaccination drives are widely seen as the only way out of the Covid-19 pandemic, but in Taiwan, just 3% of the population has received at least one dose. Now the island is battling hundreds of cases a day and does not have enough vaccines for its 23.5 million people.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/14\/how-taiwan-struggle-for-covid-vaccines-is-inflaming-tensions-with-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As island faces new outbreak and mistrust of Chinese jabs, Beijing objects to donations from US and JapanVaccines are the latest flashpoint inflaming cross-strait tensions between China and Taiwan, as the latter tries to fend off its worst coronavirus &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[1066,74,565],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-taiwan","category-vaccines-and-immunisation"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33078","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33079,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33078\/revisions\/33079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}