{"id":48932,"date":"2022-09-29T17:43:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T08:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/29\/paraguay-asks-taiwan-to-invest-1bn-to-remain-allies-china"},"modified":"2022-09-29T17:43:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T08:43:26","slug":"paraguay-asks-taiwan-to-invest-1bn-to-remain-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48932","title":{"rendered":"Paraguay asks Taiwan to invest $1bn to remain allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paraguay\u2019s president says money will ensure Asunci\u00f3n can resist pressure to switch its diplomatic ties to China<\/p>\n<p>Paraguay, one of Taiwan\u2019s few remaining formal allies, has asked the island\u2019s government for $1bn (\u00a3930m) in investment to ensure it can resist pressure to switch its diplomatic ties to China.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/9d752c51-2c3d-4f93-85c1-49b4d663f075\">interview<\/a> with the Financial Times, Paraguay\u2019s president, Mario Abdo Ben\u00edtez, said his government was working with Taiwan\u2019s to ensure Paraguayans felt \u201cthe real benefits of the strategic alliance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/29\/paraguay-asks-taiwan-to-invest-1bn-to-remain-allies-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paraguay\u2019s president says money will ensure Asunci\u00f3n can resist pressure to switch its diplomatic ties to ChinaParaguay, one of Taiwan\u2019s few remaining formal allies, has asked the island\u2019s government for $1bn (\u00a3930m) in investment to ensure it can resi&#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":[50,1369,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-paraguay","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\/48932","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=48932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48933,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48932\/revisions\/48933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}