{"id":68176,"date":"2024-12-06T03:51:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T18:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/05\/paraguay-chinese-envoy-taiwan"},"modified":"2024-12-06T03:51:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T18:51:33","slug":"paraguay-kicks-out-chinese-envoy-after-he-urges-country-to-cut-ties-with-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68176","title":{"rendered":"Paraguay kicks out Chinese envoy after he urges country to cut ties with Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials declare Xu Wei persona non grata after he asks Paraguay government to choose China over longtime ally<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/paraguay\">Paraguay<\/a> has expelled a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">Chinese<\/a> envoy for allegedly interfering in its domestic affairs and urging the South American nation to break off ties with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/taiwan\">Taiwan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a curt statement on Thursday, Paraguay\u2019s foreign ministry said it had revoked the visa of Xu Wei, a senior Chinese envoy to Latin America who was in Paraguay for an annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/unesco\">Unesco<\/a> meeting, declaring him persona non grata \u201cover interference in internal affairs\u201d. The Chinese diplomat was given 24 hours to leave the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/05\/paraguay-chinese-envoy-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials declare Xu Wei persona non grata after he asks Paraguay government to choose China over longtime allyParaguay has expelled a Chinese envoy for allegedly interfering in its domestic affairs and urging the South American nation to break off tie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4512,"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":[246,41,50,1369,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-paraguay","category-taiwan","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\/68176","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\/4512"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68177,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68176\/revisions\/68177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}