{"id":40893,"date":"2019-09-20T09:22:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T09:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40893"},"modified":"2019-09-20T09:22:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T09:22:38","slug":"second-country-ditches-taiwan-for-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40893","title":{"rendered":"Second country ditches Taiwan for Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Kiribati has become the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/09\/17\/asia\/solomon-islands-taiwan-china-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">second nation in a week<\/a> to drop Taiwan as a diplomatic ally and move towards Beijing, Taipei&#8217;s foreign ministry announced Friday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Foreign Minister Joseph Wu announced the change <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cna.com.tw\/news\/firstnews\/201909205003.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">at a press conference,<\/a> saying that in response Taipei would cut diplomatic ties with Kiribati.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">It comes just four days after the Solomon Islands&#8217; government voted unanimously to recognize mainland China over Taiwan, a move which was condemned in Taipei and welcomed in Beijing.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Kiribati has become the second nation in a week to drop Taiwan as a diplomatic ally and move towards Beijing, Taipei&#8217;s foreign ministry announced Friday.Foreign Minister Joseph Wu announced the change at a press conference, saying that in response Taipei would cut diplomatic ties with Kiribati.It comes just four days after the Solomon Islands&#8217; government&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40893","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\/40893","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=40893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}