{"id":66492,"date":"2024-08-30T19:16:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T10:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/30\/pacific-islands-forum-communique-taken-down-after-chinese-envoy-calls-taiwan-reference-unacceptable"},"modified":"2024-08-31T07:34:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T22:34:16","slug":"pacific-islands-forum-communique-taken-down-after-chinese-envoy-calls-taiwan-reference-unacceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66492","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Islands Forum communique taken down after Chinese envoy calls Taiwan reference \u2018unacceptable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Visibly angry\u2019 Qian Bo demands correction of Taiwan\u2019s \u2018development partner\u2019 label despite its use for more than three decades<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/article\/2024\/aug\/14\/breaking-news-alerts-australia-guardian-email-newsletter?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A summit of Pacific leaders has ended in drama after China\u2019s regional envoy demanded the scrapping of language about Taiwan, with the communique later republished without the offending paragraph.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/pacific-islands-forum\">Pacific Islands Forum (Pif) summit<\/a> in Tonga this week brought together Australia, New Zealand and 16 Pacific island countries or territories, only three of which still have diplomatic relations with Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/30\/pacific-islands-forum-communique-taken-down-after-chinese-envoy-calls-taiwan-reference-unacceptable\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Visibly angry\u2019 Qian Bo demands correction of Taiwan\u2019s \u2018development partner\u2019 label despite its use for more than three decadesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA summit of Pacific leaders has ended in drama after China\u2019s region&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4391,"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":[961,41,43,50,874,581,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthony-albanese","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-islands-forum","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66492","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\/4391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66497,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66492\/revisions\/66497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}