{"id":64185,"date":"2024-05-19T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/19\/new-taiwan-president-lai-ching-te-profile-bio-details"},"modified":"2024-05-19T05:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T20:00:16","slug":"lai-ching-te-the-political-brawler-who-went-from-a-taiwan-mining-village-to-the-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64185","title":{"rendered":"Lai Ching-te, the political brawler who went from a Taiwan mining village to the presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friends and analysts say Lai\u2019s tough upbringing in a working-class family has prepared him well for his next opponent: China<\/p>\n<p>The house itself is a modest, two-storey dwelling on a larger parcel of picturesque land. Mist floats down from the jungled hills behind, settling in the narrow lane that winds towards the rundown remnants of a mine.<\/p>\n<p>The only people there on the day the Guardian visits are curious tourists. They are there for one thing: to see the family home of Lai Ching-te, Taiwan\u2019s next president.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/19\/new-taiwan-president-lai-ching-te-profile-bio-details\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends and analysts say Lai\u2019s tough upbringing in a working-class family has prepared him well for his next opponent: ChinaThe house itself is a modest, two-storey dwelling on a larger parcel of picturesque land. Mist floats down from the jungled hill&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4254,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64185","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\/4254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64186,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64185\/revisions\/64186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}