{"id":61116,"date":"2024-01-12T13:16:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T04:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/12\/taiwan-general-presidential-election-2024-voting-polls-results-dpp-kmt-tpp"},"modified":"2024-01-12T13:16:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T04:16:52","slug":"inflatables-hip-hop-rallies-and-a-missile-alarm-taiwan-votes-in-election-thats-too-close-to-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61116","title":{"rendered":"Inflatables, hip-hop rallies, and a missile alarm: Taiwan votes in election that\u2019s too close to call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voting begins on Saturday in the most closely watched election in Taiwan since its first in 1996 amid the existential threat of China<\/p>\n<p>In the final days of an election campaign that has been framed as a choice between \u201cwar and peace\u201d or \u201cdemocracy and autocracy\u201d, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/09\/taiwan-chinese-satellite-launch-emergency-alert\">nationwide air raid warning<\/a> over a satellite launch from China could well have caused panic.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the piercingly loud bilingual presidential alert prompted confusion, mistranslating the Chinese word for satellite into \u201cmissile\u201d in English, and anger, as opposition politicians quickly accused the government of fear mongering days before an election that will have far-reaching implications beyond Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/12\/taiwan-general-presidential-election-2024-voting-polls-results-dpp-kmt-tpp\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting begins on Saturday in the most closely watched election in Taiwan since its first in 1996 amid the existential threat of ChinaIn the final days of an election campaign that has been framed as a choice between \u201cwar and peace\u201d or \u201cdemocracy and au&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4103,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61116","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\/4103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61129,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61116\/revisions\/61129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}