{"id":39115,"date":"2021-11-21T13:42:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T04:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/21\/china-downgrades-diplomatic-relations-with-lithuania-over-taiwan-row"},"modified":"2021-11-21T13:42:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T04:42:42","slug":"china-downgrades-diplomatic-relations-with-lithuania-over-taiwan-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39115","title":{"rendered":"China downgrades diplomatic relations with Lithuania over Taiwan row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s move was in protest at Baltic country allowing the opening of a diplomatic office using the name Taiwan<\/p>\n<p>China has officially downgraded its diplomatic ties with Lithuania to the \u201ccharge d\u2019affaires\u201d level in protest at Taiwan establishing a de facto embassy in Vilnius.<\/p>\n<p>Lithuania allowing Taipei to formally open an office using the name Taiwan was a significant diplomatic departure that defied a pressure campaign by Beijing, which tries to keep Taiwan isolated on the global stage.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/21\/china-downgrades-diplomatic-relations-with-lithuania-over-taiwan-row\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s move was in protest at Baltic country allowing the opening of a diplomatic office using the name TaiwanChina has officially downgraded its diplomatic ties with Lithuania to the \u201ccharge d\u2019affaires\u201d level in protest at Taiwan establishing a de fa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-39115","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\/39115","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39116,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39115\/revisions\/39116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}