{"id":35032,"date":"2021-08-10T19:17:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T10:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/10\/china-recalls-lithuania-ambassador-taiwan-diplomatic-office-row-beijing-tension-taipei"},"modified":"2021-08-10T19:17:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T10:17:02","slug":"china-recalls-lithuania-ambassador-in-taiwan-diplomatic-office-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35032","title":{"rendered":"China recalls Lithuania ambassador in Taiwan diplomatic office row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plan for representative offices draws angry response from Beijing amid heightened tensions with Taipei<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has recalled its ambassador from Lithuania and asked Vilnius to do the same, over plans by the European country and Taiwan to establish reciprocal diplomatic offices.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Tuesday, the Chinese ministry of foreign affairs accused Lithuania of disregarding \u201cChina\u2019s repeated representations and articulation of potential consequences\u201d in agreeing to such a move with Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/10\/china-recalls-lithuania-ambassador-taiwan-diplomatic-office-row-beijing-tension-taipei\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plan for representative offices draws angry response from Beijing amid heightened tensions with TaipeiBeijing has recalled its ambassador from Lithuania and asked Vilnius to do the same, over plans by the European country and Taiwan to establish recipr&#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":[41,50,221,1034,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-europe","category-lithuania","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\/35032","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=35032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35033,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35032\/revisions\/35033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}