{"id":53994,"date":"2023-04-02T11:35:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T02:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/02\/presidents-of-taiwan-and-guatemala-reaffirm-ties-amid-china-pressure"},"modified":"2023-04-02T11:35:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T02:35:07","slug":"presidents-of-taiwan-and-guatemala-reaffirm-ties-amid-china-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53994","title":{"rendered":"Presidents of Taiwan and Guatemala reaffirm ties amid China pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tsai Ing-wen meets with Alejandro Giammattei a few days after neighbouring Honduras switched diplomatic relations from Taipei to Beijing<\/p>\n<p>The Taiwanese president, Tsai Ing-wen, and her Guatemalan counterpart, Alejandro Giammattei, took in the jungle ruins of a Maya civilisation citadel where they observed an ancient ritual before reaffirming diplomatic ties.<\/p>\n<p>The two shook hands on Saturday in front of the stone pyramid known as El Gran Jaguar, vowing to maintain strong ties in the face of a diplomatic offensive by China, which sees Taiwan as part of its territory awaiting reunification.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/02\/presidents-of-taiwan-and-guatemala-reaffirm-ties-amid-china-pressure\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tsai Ing-wen meets with Alejandro Giammattei a few days after neighbouring Honduras switched diplomatic relations from Taipei to BeijingThe Taiwanese president, Tsai Ing-wen, and her Guatemalan counterpart, Alejandro Giammattei, took in the jungle ruin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2141,"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":[246,50,2413,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-china","category-guatemala","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\/53994","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\/2141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53995,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53994\/revisions\/53995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}