{"id":150088,"date":"2026-04-21T13:25:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150088"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:25:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:25:54","slug":"taiwanese-leader-lai-postpones-africa-trip-after-3-nations-revoke-overflight-permission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150088","title":{"rendered":"Taiwanese leader Lai postpones Africa trip after 3 nations revoke overflight permission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTaiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te was forced to postpone a visit to the island\u2019s last African partner after three other nations abruptly refused to allow his aircraft to fly over their territory, in a move Taipei blamed on pressure from Beijing.<br \/>\nThis is the first time any Taiwanese leader has had to delay an overseas visit at the last minute, Lai\u2019s office said.<br \/>\nHe had been due to depart on Wednesday for a five-day trip to eSwatini, the sole African country that maintains official diplomatic&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3350917\/taiwanese-leader-lai-postpones-africa-trip-after-3-nations-revoke-overflight-permission?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 was forced to postpone a visit to the island\u2019s last African partner after three other nations abruptly refused to&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\/150088"}],"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=150088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}