{"id":39404,"date":"2021-12-02T05:06:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T20:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/01\/honduras-xiomara-castro-taiwan-china-diplomacy"},"modified":"2021-12-02T05:06:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T20:06:05","slug":"honduras-president-elects-china-pledge-puts-taiwan-and-us-on-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39404","title":{"rendered":"Honduras president-elect\u2019s China pledge puts Taiwan and US on edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xiomara Castro has said she will foster ties with Beijing in what experts see as a move to counter US influence<\/p>\n<p>Xiomara Castro\u2019s victory in the Honduras presidential elections has placed the Central American nation at the heart of an intensifying diplomatic tug-of-war between Taiwan and China.<\/p>\n<p>Honduras is one of only 15 remaining countries that recognizes the sovereignty of Taiwan, which China claims as part of its own territory. But Castro made a manifesto pledge to end that decades-long relationship and establish diplomatic ties with Beijing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/01\/honduras-xiomara-castro-taiwan-china-diplomacy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xiomara Castro has said she will foster ties with Beijing in what experts see as a move to counter US influenceXiomara Castro\u2019s victory in the Honduras presidential elections has placed the Central American nation at the heart of an intensifying diplom&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2709,"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":[246,41,50,495,74,45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-honduras","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39404","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\/2709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39405,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39404\/revisions\/39405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}