{"id":61170,"date":"2024-01-14T16:14:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T07:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/14\/taiwan-election-global-leaders-draw-beijings-ire-for-congratulating-new-president"},"modified":"2024-01-14T16:14:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T07:14:22","slug":"taiwan-election-global-leaders-draw-beijings-ire-for-congratulating-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61170","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan election: global leaders draw Beijing\u2019s ire for congratulating new president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China urges US, UK and Japan not to interfere in \u2018China\u2019s internal affairs\u2019 after they congratulate Lai Ching-te for election win<\/p>\n<p>Global leaders have congratulated Lai Ching-te for winning Taiwan\u2019s presidential election, praising the high turnout and democratic process \u2013 and drawing ire from Beijing, which had hoped to see Taiwan\u2019s ruling party ousted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/13\/taiwan-ruling-partys-lai-ching-te-wins-presidential-election\">Lai won an unprecedented third term in power<\/a> for the pro-sovereignty Democratic Progressive party (DPP) in Saturday\u2019s election, with more than 40% of the vote. Lai is taking over from the DPP\u2019s Tsai Ing-wen, who has been president since 2016, promising to continue her foreign policy efforts in resisting China\u2019s plans to annex Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/14\/taiwan-election-global-leaders-draw-beijings-ire-for-congratulating-new-president\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China urges US, UK and Japan not to interfere in \u2018China\u2019s internal affairs\u2019 after they congratulate Lai Ching-te for election winGlobal leaders have congratulated Lai Ching-te for winning Taiwan\u2019s presidential election, praising the high turnout and de&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3621,"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":[41,50,88,74,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-japan","category-taiwan","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61170","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\/3621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61171,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61170\/revisions\/61171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}