{"id":54047,"date":"2023-04-04T08:01:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T23:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/04\/not-about-the-highest-bidder-the-countries-defying-china-to-stick-with-taiwan"},"modified":"2023-04-04T08:01:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T23:01:30","slug":"not-about-the-highest-bidder-the-countries-defying-china-to-stick-with-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54047","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not about the highest bidder\u2019: the countries defying China to stick with Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taipei\u2019s 13 allies cite differing reasons for choosing it over China as Beijing intensifies efforts to diplomatically isolate the island<\/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>Outside an unmarked building on the banks of a Taipei river, 14 flags usually fly, one for each of Taiwan\u2019s allies. But last week, the flag of Honduras was removed from the site, which houses diplomatic outposts. Now, just 13 remain.<\/p>\n<p>The standard came down after Xiomara Castro, the president of Honduras, announced on Twitter she was making good on promises made during her campaign to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/27\/anger-in-taiwan-boasting-in-china-in-wake-of-honduras-switch\">cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan after 82 years<\/a> and ally with China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/04\/not-about-the-highest-bidder-the-countries-defying-china-to-stick-with-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taipei\u2019s 13 allies cite differing reasons for choosing it over China as Beijing intensifies efforts to diplomatically isolate the islandChina-Taiwan tensions explained in 30 secondsOutside an unmarked building on the banks of a Taipei river, 14 flags u&#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":[41,50,2413,495,1439,1369,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-guatemala","category-honduras","category-palau","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\/54047","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=54047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54048,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54047\/revisions\/54048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}