{"id":39673,"date":"2021-12-10T14:33:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T05:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/10\/nicaragua-cuts-ties-with-taiwan-and-pivots-to-china"},"modified":"2021-12-10T14:33:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T05:33:36","slug":"nicaragua-cuts-ties-with-taiwan-and-pivots-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39673","title":{"rendered":"Nicaragua cuts ties with Taiwan and pivots to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Central American country becomes latest to switch allegiances to Beijing, amid escalating tensions<\/p>\n<p>Nicaragua has switched diplomatic allegiance to China, leaving Taiwan with just 14 governments around the world that formally recognise it as a country.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement by the Central American country\u2019s foreign ministry also recognised Beijing\u2019s claim over Taiwan as a Chinese province, a dispute that is at the heart of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/27\/taiwan-has-no-right-to-join-un-china-insists-as-us-ratchets-up-tensions\">escalating tensions in the region<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/10\/nicaragua-cuts-ties-with-taiwan-and-pivots-to-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central American country becomes latest to switch allegiances to Beijing, amid escalating tensionsNicaragua has switched diplomatic allegiance to China, leaving Taiwan with just 14 governments around the world that formally recognise it as a country.Th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[246,41,50,2209,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-nicaragua","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\/39673","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39674,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39673\/revisions\/39674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}