{"id":61184,"date":"2024-01-15T16:38:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T07:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/15\/nauru-to-sever-diplomatic-ties-with-taiwan-in-favour-of-china"},"modified":"2024-01-15T16:38:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T07:38:58","slug":"nauru-to-sever-diplomatic-ties-with-taiwan-in-favour-of-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61184","title":{"rendered":"Nauru to sever diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favour of China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nauru become first ally to switch allegiances to Beijing after weekend\u2019s presidential elections in Taiwan<\/p>\n<p>Nauru has switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China less than 48 hours after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/13\/taiwan-ruling-partys-lai-ching-te-wins-presidential-election\">Taiwan\u2019s presidential election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the government of the tiny island country in Micronesia, north-east of Australia, said it had decided to recognise the People\u2019s Republic of China and was seeking the resumption of full diplomatic relations \u201cin the best interests of the Republic and people of Nauru\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/15\/nauru-to-sever-diplomatic-ties-with-taiwan-in-favour-of-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nauru become first ally to switch allegiances to Beijing after weekend\u2019s presidential elections in TaiwanNauru has switched diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China less than 48 hours after Taiwan\u2019s presidential election.In a statement, the governme&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4105,"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":[41,50,629,874,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-nauru","category-pacific-islands","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61184","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\/4105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61185,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61184\/revisions\/61185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}