{"id":135176,"date":"2025-08-25T12:09:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=135176"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:09:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:09:18","slug":"arrogance-of-power-taiwans-lai-suffers-sharp-defeat-as-both-recall-bids-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=135176","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Arrogance of power\u2019: Taiwan\u2019s Lai suffers sharp defeat as both recall bids fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTaiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te has suffered his sharpest political defeat yet, as two waves of recall votes against opposition lawmakers collapsed in a 31-0 shutout \u2013 leaving his government cornered, his party shaken and his energy policy under siege.<br \/>\nThe unprecedented recall campaign, launched by pro-government civic groups and openly backed by Lai, sought to unseat 31 lawmakers from the main opposition Kuomintang (KMT), accusing them of obstructing policy and budget bills.<br \/>\nBut voters&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3323101\/double-blow-taiwans-william-lai-recall-votes-fail-leave-ruling-dpp-cornered?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 has suffered his sharpest political defeat yet, as two waves of recall votes against opposition lawmakers collapsed in a&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\/135176"}],"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=135176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}