{"id":61408,"date":"2024-01-25T10:20:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T01:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/25\/tuvalu-general-election-2024-impact-china-taiwan-pacific-relations-prime-minister-kausea-natano-seve-paeniu"},"modified":"2024-01-25T10:20:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T01:20:41","slug":"tuvalu-election-whats-happening-and-what-could-it-mean-for-taiwan-china-and-the-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61408","title":{"rendered":"Tuvalu election: what\u2019s happening, and what could it mean for Taiwan, China and the Pacific?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pacific island has a population of just 11,000 but its political leadership could decide whether Taiwan loses another critical ally in the Pacific<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the small Pacific island nation of Tuvalu will head to the polls to elect members of its 16-seat parliament.<\/p>\n<p>With the country\u2019s population sitting at just over 11,000, Tuvalu\u2019s elections rarely spark international headlines. But, against a backdrop of intense geopolitical competition and China\u2019s rising influence in the region, greater scrutiny surrounds this year\u2019s vote \u2013 and its outcome may have implications far beyond Tuvalu\u2019s shores.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/25\/tuvalu-general-election-2024-impact-china-taiwan-pacific-relations-prime-minister-kausea-natano-seve-paeniu\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pacific island has a population of just 11,000 but its political leadership could decide whether Taiwan loses another critical ally in the PacificOn Friday, the small Pacific island nation of Tuvalu will head to the polls to elect members of its 16&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4040,"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":[41,50,874,74,563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-taiwan","category-tuvalu"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61408","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\/4040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61409,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61408\/revisions\/61409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}