{"id":61059,"date":"2024-01-09T18:17:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T09:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/09\/taiwan-presidential-election-china-influence"},"modified":"2024-01-09T18:17:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T09:17:12","slug":"cognitive-warfare-and-weather-balloons-china-accused-of-using-all-means-to-influence-taiwan-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61059","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive warfare and weather balloons: China accused of using \u2018all means\u2019 to influence Taiwan vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Beijing favouring the opposition candidate, the ruling DPP has accused China of interfering in presidential election<\/p>\n<p>With just a few days until its globally significant presidential election, Taiwan has been hit by what experts say are acts of interference by the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/30\/taiwan-election-new-president-growing-threat-china\">The election<\/a> is expected to be one of the closest in decades. It comes at a time of extreme cross-strait tensions between the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China \u2013 Taiwan\u2019s formal name.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/09\/taiwan-presidential-election-china-influence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Beijing favouring the opposition candidate, the ruling DPP has accused China of interfering in presidential electionWith just a few days until its globally significant presidential election, Taiwan has been hit by what experts say are acts of inte&#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":[41,50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/61059","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=61059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61068,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61059\/revisions\/61068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}