{"id":61017,"date":"2024-01-07T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/07\/taiwan-braces-for-big-deal-presidential-election-as-chinas-shadow-looms"},"modified":"2024-01-07T18:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T09:00:16","slug":"taiwan-braces-for-big-deal-presidential-election-as-chinas-shadow-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61017","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan braces for \u2018big deal\u2019 presidential election as China\u2019s shadow looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corruption and the cost of living have trumped concerns about a belligerent neighbour in close race for the presidency<\/p>\n<p>Deep in the mountains of Hsinchu county in north Taiwan, a few dozen residents of Smangus are holding their daily morning meeting in a weatherboard hut, overlooking the towering peaks nearby.<\/p>\n<p>The remote Indigenous village, home to about 200 Atayal people, is preparing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/30\/taiwan-election-new-president-growing-threat-china\">Saturday\u2019s presidential election<\/a>. They take it very seriously, running their own polling station since 2008, and discussing candidates with all the residents.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/07\/taiwan-braces-for-big-deal-presidential-election-as-chinas-shadow-looms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corruption and the cost of living have trumped concerns about a belligerent neighbour in close race for the presidencyDeep in the mountains of Hsinchu county in north Taiwan, a few dozen residents of Smangus are holding their daily morning meeting in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4092,"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":[41,50,503,4,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-indigenous-peoples","category-politics","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\/61017","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\/4092"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61018,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61017\/revisions\/61018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}