{"id":134467,"date":"2025-08-13T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134467"},"modified":"2025-08-13T13:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:00:14","slug":"extraordinary-taiwans-william-lai-hit-by-strong-japanese-media-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134467","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Extraordinary\u2019: Taiwan\u2019s William Lai hit by strong Japanese media backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAn unprecedented wave of criticism from Japan\u2019s major newspapers against William Lai Ching-te has sparked debate over whether Tokyo is losing trust in the popularly elected Taiwanese leader just over a year into his term.<br \/>\nThe \u201cextraordinary\u201d media backlash followed the failed July 26 mass recall vote targeting opposition lawmakers, which was initiated by Taiwan\u2019s civil groups but publicly endorsed by Lai\u2019s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).<br \/>\nThe recall bid was roundly rejected by voters,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3321758\/why-taiwans-william-lai-facing-extraordinary-japanese-media-backlash?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 PostAn unprecedented wave of criticism from Japan\u2019s major newspapers against William Lai Ching-te has sparked debate over whether Tokyo is losing trust in the&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\/134467"}],"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=134467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}