{"id":148179,"date":"2026-03-19T09:17:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148179"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:17:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T09:17:40","slug":"taiwan-leader-william-lai-glorifying-japanese-colonial-rule-beijing-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=148179","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan leader William Lai \u2018glorifying Japanese colonial rule\u2019, Beijing says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostBeijing has accused Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te of \u201cglorifying Japanese colonial rule\u201d in a recent speech.<br \/>\nThe People\u2019s Liberation Army also stepped up the number of sorties by aircraft around the island after Lai made the comments on Saturday at an event to mark the 30th anniversary of Taiwan\u2019s first direct elections.<br \/>\nLai, from the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party, told the event that the early days of Kuomintang (KMT) rule over Taiwan under Chiang Kai-shek were&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3347164\/taiwan-leader-william-lai-glorifying-japanese-colonial-rule-beijing-says?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 PostBeijing has accused Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te of \u201cglorifying Japanese colonial rule\u201d in a recent speech. The People\u2019s Liberation Army also stepped up&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\/148179"}],"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=148179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}