{"id":134394,"date":"2025-08-12T11:59:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134394"},"modified":"2025-08-12T11:59:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T11:59:35","slug":"taiwans-william-lai-sees-sharpest-drop-in-approval-rate-in-15-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134394","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan\u2019s William Lai sees sharpest drop in approval rate in 15 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTaiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te is grappling with his steepest decline in public support since taking office nearly 15 months ago, indicating challenges for his ruling party in next year\u2019s local elections and the 2028 Taiwan leadership race.<br \/>\nThree major surveys \u2013 the latest released on Tuesday \u2013 showed continued sharp drops in approval for Lai, signalling trouble even in Tainan, his southern hometown and power base.<br \/>\nThe numbers are seen to reflect widespread dissatisfaction over Lai\u2019s&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3321612\/support-taiwanese-leader-william-lai-hits-new-low-3-polls-show?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 PostTaiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te is grappling with his steepest decline in public support since taking office nearly 15 months ago, indicating challenges for&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\/134394"}],"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=134394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}