{"id":34702,"date":"2021-08-02T20:21:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T11:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/02\/taiwans-olympics-victory-over-china-renews-calls-to-scrap-chinese-taipei"},"modified":"2021-08-02T20:21:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T11:21:21","slug":"will-taiwans-olympic-win-over-china-herald-the-end-of-chinese-taipei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34702","title":{"rendered":"Will Taiwan\u2019s Olympic win over China herald the end of \u2018Chinese Taipei\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victory in Tokyo has reignited debate over a decades-old compromise with the island\u2019s goliath neighbour<\/p>\n<p>In the hours between Taiwan winning gold and silver in Olympic badminton on the weekend, local courts in Taipei were packed with enthusiastic young players. The nail-biting matches had lit a fire of sporting patriotism \u2013 not least because both were against China, Taiwan\u2019s goliath neighbour, which claims Taiwan as a province it must retake.<\/p>\n<p>The doubles win by Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin was Taiwan\u2019s second gold medal, after Kuo Hsing-Chun won in weightlifting, and added to its biggest medal haul in Olympic history. Taiwan sits 18th in the table. China is first. Nevertheless, social media was awash with celebrations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/02\/taiwans-olympics-victory-over-china-renews-calls-to-scrap-chinese-taipei\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victory in Tokyo has reignited debate over a decades-old compromise with the island\u2019s goliath neighbourIn the hours between Taiwan winning gold and silver in Olympic badminton on the weekend, local courts in Taipei were packed with enthusiastic young p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2348,"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":[41,50,342,203,74,882,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-olympic-games","category-sport","category-taiwan","category-tokyo-olympic-games-2020","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\/34702","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\/2348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34703,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34702\/revisions\/34703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}