{"id":61459,"date":"2024-01-27T13:06:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T04:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/27\/tuvalus-pro-taiwan-prime-minister-kausea-natano-loses-seat-in-partial-election-results"},"modified":"2024-01-27T13:06:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T04:06:07","slug":"tuvalus-pro-taiwan-prime-minister-kausea-natano-loses-seat-in-partial-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61459","title":{"rendered":"Tuvalu\u2019s pro-Taiwan prime minister Kausea Natano loses seat in partial election results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The results fuel concern that the micronation could switch diplomatic recognition to Beijing, as votes continue to be counted<\/p>\n<p>The pro-Taiwan leader of the Pacific islands nation of Tuvalu, Kausea Natano, has lost his seat according to partial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/26\/tuvalu-goes-to-the-polls-in-election-watched-by-china-and-taiwan\">election results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The vote is being closely watched by Taiwan, China and the United States, amid speculation the micronation could be poised to switch diplomatic recognition to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/27\/tuvalus-pro-taiwan-prime-minister-kausea-natano-loses-seat-in-partial-election-results\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results fuel concern that the micronation could switch diplomatic recognition to Beijing, as votes continue to be countedThe pro-Taiwan leader of the Pacific islands nation of Tuvalu, Kausea Natano, has lost his seat according to partial election r&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,50,74,563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","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\/61459","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61460,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61459\/revisions\/61460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}