{"id":62369,"date":"2024-03-06T09:12:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T00:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/06\/taiwan-minister-tien-chung-kwang-tuvalu-visit"},"modified":"2024-03-06T09:12:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T00:12:45","slug":"taiwans-deputy-foreign-minister-heads-to-tuvalu-to-cement-ties-with-pacific-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62369","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan\u2019s deputy foreign minister heads to Tuvalu to cement ties with Pacific ally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tien Chung-kwang\u2019s visit comes after Tuvalu\u2019s new government vowed to stick with Taipei amid speculation it may switch allegiances to Beijing<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s deputy foreign minister has embarked on a visit to diplomatic ally Tuvalu, officials said, after the Pacific island nation\u2019s new government affirmed its \u201cspecial\u201d relationship with Taipei.<\/p>\n<p>Tien Chung-kwang left for the visit on Monday as a special envoy for president Tsai Ing-wen to congratulate and show support for Tuvalu\u2019s new government, said foreign ministry official Eric Chen.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/06\/taiwan-minister-tien-chung-kwang-tuvalu-visit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tien Chung-kwang\u2019s visit comes after Tuvalu\u2019s new government vowed to stick with Taipei amid speculation it may switch allegiances to BeijingTaiwan\u2019s deputy foreign minister has embarked on a visit to diplomatic ally Tuvalu, officials said, after the P&#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":[50,874,74,563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/62369","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=62369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62370,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62369\/revisions\/62370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}