{"id":150729,"date":"2026-05-02T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150729"},"modified":"2026-05-02T22:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:00:12","slug":"faith-hope-and-ancestry-william-lais-clan-village-in-beijings-push-for-cross-strait-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150729","title":{"rendered":"Faith, hope and ancestry: William Lai\u2019s clan village in Beijing\u2019s push for cross-strait ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAs the closest mainland Chinese province to Taiwan, Fujian is a key site for Beijing\u2019s messaging towards the island. In the second of a two-part series, Xinlu Liang looks at how the ancestral home village of William Lai Ching-te has become a focus for efforts to promote closer ties based on kinship and religion.<br \/>\nThe village of Xintian in Fujian province is usually a quiet rural backwater but that changed in November when popular Taiwanese YouTuber and bodybuilder Holger Chen Chih-han descended&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3352228\/faith-hope-and-ancestry-william-lais-clan-village-beijings-push-cross-strait-ties?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 PostAs the closest mainland Chinese province to Taiwan, Fujian is a key site for Beijing\u2019s messaging towards the island. In the second of a&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\/150729"}],"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=150729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}