{"id":67604,"date":"2024-11-01T09:37:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T00:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/01\/palau-election-results-candidates-date-november-5"},"modified":"2024-11-01T09:37:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T00:37:32","slug":"the-other-november-5-election-china-and-the-us-look-on-as-palau-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67604","title":{"rendered":"The other November 5 election: China and the US look on as Palau votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brothers-in-law face off in a presidential battle over the economy, cost of living and relations with global powers<\/p>\n<p>Flanked by a turquoise lagoon, a newly rebuilt US military runway slices through forest in southern Palau. Completed just months ago, the airfield is the latest example of a push by the United States to build its presence in the Pacific as concerns around China\u2019s reach in the region grow.<\/p>\n<p>The small Pacific country is one of 12 in the world that has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/24\/culture-democracy-and-clout-why-three-pacific-countries-are-sticking-with-taiwan\">diplomatic ties with Taiwan instead of China<\/a> and will head to the polls on 5 November, the same day as the US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/01\/palau-election-results-candidates-date-november-5\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brothers-in-law face off in a presidential battle over the economy, cost of living and relations with global powersFlanked by a turquoise lagoon, a newly rebuilt US military runway slices through forest in southern Palau. Completed just months ago, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4473,"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":[41,50,874,3085,1439,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-pacific-islands","category-pacific-leaders-in-their-words","category-palau","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67604","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\/4473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67605,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67604\/revisions\/67605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}