{"id":61162,"date":"2024-01-14T04:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T19:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2024\/jan\/13\/taiwan-elections-pro-sovereignty-dpp-party-wins-unprecedented-third-term-video"},"modified":"2024-01-14T04:00:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T19:00:29","slug":"taiwan-elections-pro-sovereignty-dpp-party-wins-unprecedented-third-term-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61162","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan elections: pro-sovereignty DPP party wins unprecedented third term \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan has elected former vice president Lai Ching-te as the country&#8217;s new leader, delivering the sovereignty Democratic Progressive party an unprecedented third term. Lai served alongside former president Tsai Ing-wen from 2020. In his victory speech, Lai told a gathering of supporters: &#8216;We are telling the international community that between democracy and authoritarianism we will stand on the side of democracy&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/audio\/2024\/jan\/12\/the-chinese-shadow-over-taiwans-election-podcast\">The Chinese shadow over Taiwan\u2019s election<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/13\/taiwan-ruling-partys-lai-ching-te-wins-presidential-election\">Taiwan elects Lai Ching-te, from incumbent pro-sovereignty party, as president<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2024\/jan\/13\/taiwan-elections-pro-sovereignty-dpp-party-wins-unprecedented-third-term-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan has elected former vice president Lai Ching-te as the country&#8217;s new leader, delivering the sovereignty Democratic Progressive party an unprecedented third term. Lai served alongside former president Tsai Ing-wen from 2020. In his victory speech,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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-61162","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\/61162","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61163,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61162\/revisions\/61163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}