{"id":61151,"date":"2024-01-13T18:27:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T09:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/13\/vote-counting-starts-in-key-taiwan-election-amid-threats-from-china"},"modified":"2024-01-13T18:27:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T09:27:15","slug":"vote-counting-starts-in-key-taiwan-election-amid-threats-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61151","title":{"rendered":"Vote counting starts in key Taiwan election amid threats from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing has criticised frontrunner Lai Ching-te as a \u2018separatist\u2019 as it seeks to intimidate self-ruling island<\/p>\n<p>Vote counting got under way on Saturday in Taiwan\u2019s presidential election, held under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/audio\/2024\/jan\/12\/the-chinese-shadow-over-taiwans-election-podcast\">shadow of threats from China<\/a> that choosing a leader it disapproves of could set the stage for war on the self-ruled island.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing criticised frontrunner Lai Ching-te, the current-vice president, as a dangerous \u201cseparatist\u201d in the days leading up to the poll and, on the eve of the vote, its defence ministry vowed to \u201ccrush\u201d any Taiwanese independence attempts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/13\/vote-counting-starts-in-key-taiwan-election-amid-threats-from-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing has criticised frontrunner Lai Ching-te as a \u2018separatist\u2019 as it seeks to intimidate self-ruling islandVote counting got under way on Saturday in Taiwan\u2019s presidential election, held under the shadow of threats from China that choosing a leader &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-61151","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\/61151","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61157,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61151\/revisions\/61157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}