{"id":71270,"date":"2025-04-23T21:15:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T12:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/23\/taiwan-president-will-not-attend-pope-francis-funeral"},"modified":"2025-04-24T11:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T02:51:12","slug":"taiwan-president-will-not-attend-pope-franciss-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71270","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan president will not attend Pope Francis\u2019s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan to send former vice-president despite Vatican being one of country\u2019s few diplomatic allies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/apr\/23\/pope-francis-lie-in-state-st-peters-basilica-vatican-funeral-latest-news-updates\">Pope Francis\u2019s funeral \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s president, Lai Ching-te, will not attend the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/23\/pilgrims-begin-to-gather-as-pope-francis-set-to-lie-in-state-at-st-peters-basilica\">funeral of Pope Francis<\/a>, despite his foreign ministry saying earlier it was their \u201cmost important aim\u201d in negotiations with the Vatican that he be there in person.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry announced on Wednesday that Taiwan would be sending its former vice-president, Chen Chien-jen as special envoy. Chen has deep ties with the Vatican and met Pope Francis six times, but the decision means Taiwan\u2019s delegation will be without a serving government official, despite the Vatican being one of Taiwan\u2019s few diplomatic allies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/23\/taiwan-president-will-not-attend-pope-francis-funeral\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan to send former vice-president despite Vatican being one of country\u2019s few diplomatic alliesPope Francis\u2019s funeral \u2013 latest updatesTaiwan\u2019s president, Lai Ching-te, will not attend the funeral of Pope Francis, despite his foreign ministry saying e&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,368,754,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-catholicism","category-pope-francis","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71270","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71280,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71270\/revisions\/71280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}