{"id":144855,"date":"2026-01-25T02:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T02:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144855"},"modified":"2026-01-25T02:00:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T02:00:36","slug":"what-next-for-taiwan-as-william-lai-refuses-to-attend-impeachment-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144855","title":{"rendered":"What next for Taiwan as William Lai refuses to attend impeachment hearings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe opposition push to impeach Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te has entered a new phase after he refused to appear at related legislative hearings.<br \/>\nThe no-show has further deepened partisan strife and is likely to complicate governance ahead of year-end local government elections, observers warn, although most of them agree that the impeachment motion is unlikely to clear Taiwan\u2019s high constitutional threshold.<br \/>\nThe impeachment motion \u2013 an unprecedented move against a sitting leader of&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3341116\/what-next-taiwan-william-lai-refuses-attend-impeachment-hearings?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 PostThe opposition push to impeach Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te has entered a new phase after he refused to appear at related legislative hearings.&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\/144855"}],"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=144855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}