{"id":61033,"date":"2024-01-08T14:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/08\/taiwan-election-who-candidates-what-stake"},"modified":"2024-01-08T14:00:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T05:00:40","slug":"taiwan-election-who-are-the-candidates-and-what-is-at-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61033","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan election: who are the candidates and what is at stake?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Presidential vote will have far-reaching consequences and set tone for US-China relations<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/07\/taiwan-braces-for-big-deal-presidential-election-as-chinas-shadow-looms\">China is the least of our problems, say Taiwan\u2019s voters on eve of election<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a bumper year of elections, a small archipelago of 24 million people will take part in a presidential vote that will have far-reaching consequences.<\/p>\n<p>On 13 January, voters in Taiwan will choose a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/24\/taiwans-choice-who-will-replace-tsai-ing-wen-as-president-amid-china-tensions\">new president<\/a>, who will set the tone for relations between the world\u2019s two biggest superpowers for the years to come.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/08\/taiwan-election-who-candidates-what-stake\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidential vote will have far-reaching consequences and set tone for US-China relationsChina is the least of our problems, say Taiwan\u2019s voters on eve of electionIn a bumper year of elections, a small archipelago of 24 million people will take part in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[41,50,74,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","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\/61033","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61034,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61033\/revisions\/61034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}