{"id":28746,"date":"2019-01-11T19:23:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T19:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28746"},"modified":"2019-01-11T19:23:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T19:23:07","slug":"taiwan-appoints-new-premier-amid-rising-china-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28746","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan appoints new Premier amid rising China tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Beijing (CNN)<\/cite>Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Friday appointed a senior figure from her pro-independence ruling party as the island&#8217;s new Premier amid growing tensions with China. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Su Tseng-chang, 71, a former chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), was chosen to replace William Lai after the party suffered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/24\/asia\/taiwan-president-resigns-party-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">bruising defeat in local elections last November<\/a>. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Lai formally resigned earlier Friday, along with the entire Cabinet, taking responsibility for the party&#8217;s losses. Tsai also resigned as DPP leader following the elections, though she remains president. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing (CNN)Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Friday appointed a senior figure from her pro-independence ruling party as the island&#8217;s new Premier amid growing tensions with China. Su Tseng-chang, 71, a former chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), was chosen to replace William Lai after the party suffered a bruising defeat in local elections last&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28746","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=28746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}