{"id":150723,"date":"2026-05-02T13:11:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150723"},"modified":"2026-05-02T13:11:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:11:49","slug":"taiwans-william-lai-lands-in-eswatini-on-trip-beijing-calls-a-political-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150723","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan\u2019s William Lai lands in eSwatini on trip Beijing calls a political \u2018stunt\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostBeijing has labelled Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te\u2019s surprise visit to eSwatini, the island\u2019s sole African ally, a political \u201cstunt\u201d.<br \/>\nIn a Facebook post on Saturday evening, Lai said he arrived earlier in the day. The eSwatini government also confirmed his arrival on its own Facebook page.<br \/>\n\u201cHello to my fellow citizens. I arrived earlier today in our diplomatic ally eSwatini,\u201d Lai wrote, adding that his foreign affairs and security teams had spent days securing a revised route that&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3352238\/taiwans-william-lai-lands-eswatini-trip-beijing-calls-political-stunt?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 labelled Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te\u2019s surprise visit to eSwatini, the island\u2019s sole African ally, a political \u201cstunt\u201d. In a Facebook post&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\/150723"}],"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=150723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}