{"id":134205,"date":"2025-08-08T08:07:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T08:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134205"},"modified":"2025-08-08T08:07:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T08:07:25","slug":"beijing-strengthens-ties-with-eswatini-despite-diplomatic-dispute-over-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134205","title":{"rendered":"Beijing strengthens ties with eSwatini despite diplomatic dispute over Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has steadily advanced its trade and infrastructure ties with eSwatini despite a lack of diplomatic relations, which observers said could reflect Beijing\u2019s \u201clong game\u201d approach with the region.<br \/>\nIn the landlocked nation\u2019s southern region, a major power dam has been under construction by state-owned Chinese company POWERCHINA since last year.<br \/>\nThe US$146 million (1,048 million yuan) Mpakeni Dam, a project awarded to POWERCHINA\u2019s subsidiary Sinohydro in 2023, is said to be the first engineering&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3321154\/beijing-strengthens-ties-eswatini-despite-ongoing-diplomatic-dispute-over-taiwan?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 PostChina has steadily advanced its trade and infrastructure ties with eSwatini despite a lack of diplomatic relations, which observers said could reflect Beijing\u2019s \u201clong&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\/134205"}],"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=134205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}