{"id":48576,"date":"2022-09-18T11:30:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/18\/taiwan-specially-invited-to-sign-queens-condolence-book"},"modified":"2022-09-18T11:30:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T02:30:07","slug":"taiwan-specially-invited-to-sign-queens-condolence-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48576","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan \u2018specially invited\u2019 to sign Queen\u2019s condolence book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan\u2019s de facto ambassador given invite to Lancaster House, but hasn\u2019t said whether it can send anyone to the state funeral<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s de facto ambassador in London received a special invitation to sign the book of condolence for the Queen, the island\u2019s foreign ministry said, adding he was given the same treatment as other dignitaries.<\/p>\n<p>Britain, like most countries, has no diplomatic ties with Chinese-claimed Taiwan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/british-mps-plan-visit-to-taiwan-as-tension-with-china-simmers\">though they have close unofficial ones<\/a>. Democratically governed Taiwan is largely excluded from most international events and bodies due to Beijing\u2019s objections.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/18\/taiwan-specially-invited-to-sign-queens-condolence-book\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan\u2019s de facto ambassador given invite to Lancaster House, but hasn\u2019t said whether it can send anyone to the state funeralTaiwan\u2019s de facto ambassador in London received a special invitation to sign the book of condolence for the Queen, the island\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,50,2759,1611,2757,74,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-king-charles-iii","category-monarchy","category-queen-elizabeth-ii","category-taiwan","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48576","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48577,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48576\/revisions\/48577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}