{"id":9163,"date":"2019-09-20T15:28:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T06:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/20\/taiwan-loses-second-ally-in-a-week-as-kiribati-switches-to-china"},"modified":"2019-09-20T15:28:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T06:28:14","slug":"taiwan-loses-second-ally-in-a-week-as-kiribati-switches-to-china-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=9163","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan loses second ally in a week as Kiribati switches to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific nation changes allegiance to Beijing just days after Solomon Islands also cut ties with Taipei <\/p>\n<p>Taiwan has lost its second diplomatic ally in less than a week after the Pacific nation of Kiribati moved to sever diplomatic ties with Taiwan and establish foreign relations with China.<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes after the Solomon Islands announced it was breaking away from Taiwan on Monday, and means that in just a week the number of Taiwan\u2019s diplomatic allies has dropped from 17 to 15.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/20\/taiwan-loses-second-ally-in-a-week-as-kiribati-switches-to-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific nation changes allegiance to Beijing just days after Solomon Islands also cut ties with Taipei Taiwan has lost its second diplomatic ally in less than a week after the Pacific nation of Kiribati moved to sever diplomatic ties with Taiwan and es&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"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":[41,50,591,63,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-kiribati","category-solomon-islands","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\/9163","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\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9171,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9163\/revisions\/9171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}