{"id":624643,"date":"2023-12-27T10:50:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T05:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=624643"},"modified":"2023-12-27T12:37:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T07:07:39","slug":"whisky-and-the-coal-mining-shack-taiwan-election-is-not-only-about-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/whisky-and-the-coal-mining-shack-taiwan-election-is-not-only-about-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Whisky and the coal mining &#8216;shack&#8217;: Taiwan election is not only about China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taipei: As Taiwan&#8217;s election approaches next month, it is not only fraught ties with China competing for electors&#8217; attention.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates are exchanging blows over everything from property disputes to whether drinking whisky is out of touch, in a raucous and freewheeling display of the island&#8217;s democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan&#8217;s January 13 presidential and parliamentary election will define how the Chinese-claimed island deals with Beijing and the subject is indeed a major bone of contention.<\/p>\n<p>But it is far from the sole issue debated at rallies, press conferences and on television talk shows where the uncensored exchanges are a major contrast to China, which says it is a socialist democracy but has been ruled only by the Communist Party since the founding of the People&#8217;s Republic in 1949.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taipei: As Taiwan&#8217;s election approaches next month, it is not only fraught ties with China competing for electors&#8217; attention. The candidates are exchanging blows over everything from property disputes to whether drinking whisky is out of touch, in a raucous and freewheeling display of the island&#8217;s democracy. Taiwan&#8217;s January 13 presidential and parliamentary election will define how the Chinese-claimed island deals with Beijing and the subject is indeed a major bone of contention. But it is far from the sole issue debated at rallies, press conferences and on television talk shows where the uncensored exchanges are a major contrast to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}