{"id":60379,"date":"2023-12-06T09:01:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T00:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/06\/taiwan-presidential-election-opposition-in-chaos-as-china-looms-in-background"},"modified":"2023-12-06T09:01:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T00:01:55","slug":"taiwan-presidential-election-opposition-in-chaos-as-china-looms-in-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60379","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan presidential election: opposition in chaos as China looms in background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters are faced with a choice of continuity with the ruling DPP or change, with an opposition that favours closer ties with Beijing <\/p>\n<p>On the eve of the deadline to formally register as a candidate for Taiwan\u2019s presidential elections in January, the ruling party\u2019s pick for vice-president held a slick and short press conference at a Taipei convention centre. Hsiao Bi-khim, Taiwan\u2019s high-profile diplomatic representative to the US, took few questions from the massive crowd of press. She presented herself as an experienced and pragmatic deputy to presidential candidate Lai Ching-te in a Democratic Progressive party (DPP) administration.<\/p>\n<p>An administration run by Lai and Hsiao, she said, would continue to defend Taiwan\u2019s democracy from Beijing\u2019s authoritarian threats of annexation and preserve \u201cthe status quo\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/06\/taiwan-presidential-election-opposition-in-chaos-as-china-looms-in-background\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters are faced with a choice of continuity with the ruling DPP or change, with an opposition that favours closer ties with Beijing On the eve of the deadline to formally register as a candidate for Taiwan\u2019s presidential elections in January, the ruli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2626,"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-60379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","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\/60379","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\/2626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60380,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60379\/revisions\/60380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}