{"id":50542,"date":"2022-11-25T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T00:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/25\/china-threat-looms-in-taiwans-local-elections-as-voters-weigh-islands-future"},"modified":"2022-11-25T09:00:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T00:00:41","slug":"china-threat-looms-in-taiwans-local-elections-as-voters-weigh-islands-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50542","title":{"rendered":"China threat looms in Taiwan\u2019s local elections as voters weigh island\u2019s future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling DPP puts Beijing at centre of campaign while rival KMT steers clear, in first vote since tensions in the Taiwan Strait escalated<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/china-and-taiwan-whats-behind-the-tensions-in-30-seconds\">China-Taiwan tensions explained in 30 seconds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On Sunday afternoon 150,000 people gathered in front of the Taipei city hall. Harley motorcycles, giant floats, balloons and mascots led the parade to a soundtrack of <a href=\"https:\/\/generasian.blog\/2018\/04\/08\/musicians-banned-from-china-for-being-pro-taiwan\/\">music banned in China<\/a>. It looked like a concert, but on this day the main act was a politician.<\/p>\n<p>The crowds were there to support Taipei mayoral candidate Chen Shih-chung, a former minister of health with the governing Democratic Progressive party (DPP).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/25\/china-threat-looms-in-taiwans-local-elections-as-voters-weigh-islands-future\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling DPP puts Beijing at centre of campaign while rival KMT steers clear, in first vote since tensions in the Taiwan Strait escalatedChina-Taiwan tensions explained in 30 secondsOn Sunday afternoon 150,000 people gathered in front of the Taipei city &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3456,"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":[41,50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/50542","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\/3456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50543,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50542\/revisions\/50543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}