{"id":147864,"date":"2026-03-14T04:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147864"},"modified":"2026-03-14T04:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:00:15","slug":"swing-and-a-miss-taiwans-premier-under-fire-over-baseball-trip-to-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147864","title":{"rendered":"Swing and a miss? Taiwan\u2019s premier under fire over baseball trip to Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTaiwanese Premier Cho Jung-tai has come under fire over what he said was a private visit to Japan to support the island\u2019s team at the World Baseball Classic last week \u2013 a trip that drew a sharp rebuke from Beijing.<br \/>\nCho travelled to Tokyo on March 7, watching Taiwan defeat the Czech Republic 14-0 at the Tokyo Dome in the tournament\u2019s Pool C round. He returned to Taipei the same day.<br \/>\nIt was the first visit to Japan by a sitting Taiwanese premier since Tokyo ended official ties with Taipei in 1972&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3346546\/swing-and-miss-taiwans-premier-under-fire-over-baseball-trip-tokyo?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 Premier Cho Jung-tai has come under fire over what he said was a private visit to Japan to support the island\u2019s team at&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\/147864"}],"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=147864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}