{"id":71439,"date":"2025-05-01T20:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T11:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/01\/papal-inauguration-pope-risks-raising-tensions-between-china-and-taiwan"},"modified":"2025-05-01T20:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T11:58:08","slug":"papal-inauguration-risks-raising-tensions-between-china-and-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71439","title":{"rendered":"Papal inauguration risks raising tensions between China and Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing suspected of putting pressure on Vatican to cut ties with Taipei <\/p>\n<p>Next week, 135 cardinals will gather inside the Vatican for the conclave, a secretive meeting to decide who will succeed the late Pope Francis. Around the world, people are speculating: who will the next pontiff be? But in Taiwan, a more common discussion has been: who are we sending to the inauguration?<\/p>\n<p>The former vice-president Chen Chien-jen recently returned from Vatican City, where he represented Taiwan at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/26\/pilgrims-powerful-come-together-pope-francis-funeral\">Francis\u2019s funeral<\/a>. But the committed Catholic hopes he won\u2019t be asked to repeat the journey to welcome in the successor. Instead, he is pushing for it to be Taiwan\u2019s president, Lai Ching-te.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/01\/papal-inauguration-pope-risks-raising-tensions-between-china-and-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing suspected of putting pressure on Vatican to cut ties with Taipei Next week, 135 cardinals will gather inside the Vatican for the conclave, a secretive meeting to decide who will succeed the late Pope Francis. Around the world, people are specul&#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":[368,50,3298,754,74,948,1705],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholicism","category-china","category-papal-conclave","category-pope-francis","category-taiwan","category-the-papacy","category-vatican"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71439","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=71439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71440,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71439\/revisions\/71440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}