{"id":73148,"date":"2025-07-30T10:40:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T01:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/30\/taiwan-president-cancels-latin-america-trip-us-opposed-nyc-stopover"},"modified":"2025-07-30T10:40:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T01:40:39","slug":"taiwan-president-scraps-latin-america-trip-amid-reports-the-us-opposed-stopover-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73148","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan president scraps Latin America trip amid reports the US opposed stopover in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taiwanese government insists Lai Ching-te\u2019s visit was delayed due to domestic issues, including natural disasters and tariff negotiations<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s President Lai Ching-te will delay an expected trip to his country\u2019s remaining allies in Latin America, amid conflicting accounts of the reason for the postponement.<\/p>\n<p>Lai was expected to travel to the Americas next month, as his government seeks to shore up support in a region where many countries have cut diplomatic ties in favour of relations with China, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/01\/china-and-taiwan-whats-behind-the-tensions-in-30-seconds\">which claims Taiwan as its territory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/30\/taiwan-president-cancels-latin-america-trip-us-opposed-nyc-stopover\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taiwanese government insists Lai Ching-te\u2019s visit was delayed due to domestic issues, including natural disasters and tariff negotiationsTaiwan\u2019s President Lai Ching-te will delay an expected trip to his country\u2019s remaining allies in Latin America,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,50,74,554,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-trump-administration","category-us-foreign-policy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73148","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73149,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73148\/revisions\/73149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}