{"id":75673,"date":"2025-12-19T12:50:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/19\/honduras-rethinking-china-ties"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:16:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:16:48","slug":"better-off-with-taiwan-honduras-joins-other-latin-american-countries-rethinking-ties-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75673","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Better off with Taiwan\u2019: Honduras joins other Latin American countries rethinking ties with China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US pressure, broken promises by China and corruption scandals have halted Taiwan\u2019s slide to diplomatic irrelevance in the region<\/p>\n<p>After weeks of technology failures, accusations of fraud and complaints about US President Donald Trump\u2019s interference, the outcome of Honduras\u2019 30 November election is yet to be called. But there is a clear winner beyond the Central American nation\u2019s borders: Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Both leading candidates say they will cut diplomatic ties with Beijing and re-establish relations with Taipei,<strong> <\/strong>reversing the March 2023 decision by the then president, Xiomara Castro, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/26\/honduras-says-there-is-only-one-china-as-it-officially-cuts-ties-with-taiwan\">sensationally end<\/a> Honduras\u2019 82-year relationship with Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/19\/honduras-rethinking-china-ties\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US pressure, broken promises by China and corruption scandals have halted Taiwan\u2019s slide to diplomatic irrelevance in the regionAfter weeks of technology failures, accusations of fraud and complaints about US President Donald Trump\u2019s interference, the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5123,"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":[246,41,495,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-honduras","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\/75673","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\/5123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75678,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75673\/revisions\/75678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}