{"id":131855,"date":"2025-06-27T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131855"},"modified":"2025-06-27T03:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:00:09","slug":"lais-impurities-speech-fuels-authoritarian-fears-stop-before-its-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131855","title":{"rendered":"Lai\u2019s \u2018impurities\u2019 speech fuels authoritarian fears: stop before it\u2019s too late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostRecent comments by Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te about \u201cremoving impurities\u201d through democratic processes have triggered a fierce backlash on the island, with critics accusing him of authoritarian tendencies and attempting to divide Taiwan under the guise of unity.<br \/>\nDelivering the second of his \u201c10 Talks on Uniting the Country\u201d series on Tuesday, Lai described Taiwan\u2019s democratic progress as akin to forging steel. \u201cHammer after hammer, tempered into steel, all impurities removed \u2013 until&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3315977\/taiwans-lai-purging-political-foes-critics-condemn-impurities-speech?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostRecent comments by Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te about \u201cremoving impurities\u201d through democratic processes have triggered a fierce backlash on the island, with critics&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"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\/131855"}],"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=131855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}