{"id":73011,"date":"2025-07-23T11:52:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T02:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/23\/total-recall-campaigners-employ-quirk-of-taiwans-political-system-to-turn-on-pro-china-candidates"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:52:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T02:52:21","slug":"total-recall-campaigners-employ-quirk-of-taiwans-political-system-to-turn-on-pro-china-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73011","title":{"rendered":"Total recall? Campaigners employ quirk of Taiwan\u2019s political system to turn on \u2018pro-China\u2019 candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activists across Taiwan are pushing for the expulsion of dozens of \u2018pro-Beijing\u2019 legislators, leading to uproar <\/p>\n<p>On a steamy night deep in one of Taipei\u2019s most conservative suburbs, a group of elderly neighbours are yelling at each other next to a garbage truck. They have just been handed a leaflet by a university student calling on them to recall \u2013 expel \u2013 their sitting legislator.<\/p>\n<p>There are hundreds of these campaigners across Taiwan, targeting members of the Kuomintang (KMT) opposition who they accuse of being too pro-China. But this neighbourhood is deeply loyal to the party, and the campaigners are not welcome.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/23\/total-recall-campaigners-employ-quirk-of-taiwans-political-system-to-turn-on-pro-china-candidates\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists across Taiwan are pushing for the expulsion of dozens of \u2018pro-Beijing\u2019 legislators, leading to uproar On a steamy night deep in one of Taipei\u2019s most conservative suburbs, a group of elderly neighbours are yelling at each other next to a garba&#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":[41,50,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73011","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=73011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73012,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73011\/revisions\/73012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}