{"id":23140,"date":"2018-11-25T08:22:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T08:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23140"},"modified":"2018-11-25T08:22:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T08:22:29","slug":"will-taiwan-votes-outcome-bring-a-china-friendly-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23140","title":{"rendered":"Will Taiwan vote&#8217;s outcome bring a China-friendly party?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"78.7220447284\">\n<p>Millions of people in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/taiwan.html\">Taiwan<\/a> turned out to cast their vote in midterm elections and answer 10 referendum questions.<\/p>\n<p>These questions included whether or not to change the island&#8217;s name in international sporting events from Chinese Taipei to Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>The results, which have caused the head of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/11\/taiwan-president-quits-party-leadership-polls-setback-181124152410229.html\">to resign<\/a>, will be closely watched by China&#8217;s government in Beijing, which regards Taiwan as a breakaway territory.<\/p>\n<p>The Taiwanese have formal diplomatic ties with only a few countries as Beijing makes it impossible to have official relations with both.<\/p>\n<p>So, how will the result affect ongoing tensions with Beijing?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter<\/strong>: Laura Kyle<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Chih-Cheng Lo &#8211; legislator for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party<\/p>\n<p>Einar Tangen &#8211; China political analyst<\/p>\n<p>Fabrizio Bozzato &#8211; member of the Taiwan Strategy Research Association at the Taiwan Centre for International Strategic Studies<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of people in Taiwan turned out to cast their vote in midterm elections and answer 10 referendum questions. These questions included whether or not to change the island&#8217;s name in international sporting events from Chinese Taipei to Taiwan. The results, which have caused the head of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party to resign, will&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}