{"id":62114,"date":"2024-02-24T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/24\/culture-democracy-and-clout-why-three-pacific-countries-are-sticking-with-taiwan"},"modified":"2024-02-24T04:00:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T19:00:07","slug":"culture-democracy-and-clout-why-three-pacific-countries-are-sticking-with-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62114","title":{"rendered":"Culture, democracy and clout: why three Pacific countries are sticking with Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuvalu, Palau and the Marshall Islands hold diplomatic ties with Taiwan despite pressure from China to switch sides<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/09\/chinas-rising-power-and-influence-in-the-pacific-explained-in-30-seconds\">China\u2019s rising power in the Pacific explained in 30 seconds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a king tide swept through Tuvalu this month, flooding homes and disrupting local sea routes, changes in political currents were also buffeting the country.<\/p>\n<p>The wild weather delayed a key meeting between newly elected members of parliament to determine the successor to Tuvalu\u2019s prime minister Kausea Natano, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/27\/tuvalus-pro-taiwan-prime-minister-kausea-natano-loses-seat-in-partial-election-results\">who lost his seat in January\u2019s elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/24\/culture-democracy-and-clout-why-three-pacific-countries-are-sticking-with-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuvalu, Palau and the Marshall Islands hold diplomatic ties with Taiwan despite pressure from China to switch sidesChina\u2019s rising power in the Pacific explained in 30 secondsAs a king tide swept through Tuvalu this month, flooding homes and disrupting &#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":[41,50,602,874,1439,74,563,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-marshall-islands","category-pacific-islands","category-palau","category-taiwan","category-tuvalu","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62114","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=62114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62115,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62114\/revisions\/62115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}