{"id":62148,"date":"2024-02-26T14:21:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T05:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/26\/tuvalu-election-feleti-teo-named-pm-prime-minister-kausea-natano"},"modified":"2024-02-26T14:21:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T05:21:11","slug":"tuvalu-names-feleti-teo-prime-minister-after-pro-taiwan-leader-kausea-natano-ousted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62148","title":{"rendered":"Tuvalu names Feleti Teo prime minister after pro-Taiwan leader Kausea Natano ousted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan ambassador says ties remain \u2018rock solid\u2019 amid rumours island nation could switch allegiance to Beijing<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers in Tuvalu have selected Feleti Teo as the Pacific island nation\u2019s new prime minister, weeks after an election that put ties with Taiwan in focus.<\/p>\n<p>Former attorney general Teo secured the support of lawmakers who were elected last month, government secretary Tufoua Panapa told Agence France-Presse on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/26\/tuvalu-election-feleti-teo-named-pm-prime-minister-kausea-natano\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan ambassador says ties remain \u2018rock solid\u2019 amid rumours island nation could switch allegiance to BeijingLawmakers in Tuvalu have selected Feleti Teo as the Pacific island nation\u2019s new prime minister, weeks after an election that put ties with Taiw&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-62148","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\/62148","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62149,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62148\/revisions\/62149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}