{"id":10103,"date":"2021-05-26T23:30:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T23:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=10103"},"modified":"2021-05-26T23:30:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T23:30:12","slug":"covid-19-vaccines-beijing-blocked-taiwans-deal-with-biontech-tsai-ing-wen-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=10103","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 vaccines: Beijing blocked Taiwan\u2019s deal with BioNTech, Tsai Ing-wen says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostBeijing was instrumental in preventing Taiwan signing a deal to buy Covid-19 vaccines from German firm BioNTech, the island\u2019s President Tsai Ing-wen said on Wednesday.\u201cTaiwan was close to sealing the deal with the German plant, but because of China\u2019s intervention, we still can\u2019t sign the contract,\u201d she told a meeting of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party.Taipei had previously \u201csmoothly\u201d ordered shots from AstraZeneca in Britain and Moderna in the United States, she said.This is the first\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3134953\/covid-19-vaccines-beijing-blocked-taiwans-deal-biontech-tsai-ing\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostBeijing was instrumental in preventing Taiwan signing a deal to buy Covid-19 vaccines from German firm BioNTech, the island\u2019s President Tsai Ing-wen said on Wednesday.\u201cTaiwan was&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10103"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}