{"id":160139,"date":"2026-11-12T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=160139"},"modified":"2026-11-12T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T12:00:08","slug":"taiwan-to-close-papua-new-guinea-office-and-halt-spot-market-lng-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=160139","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan to close Papua New Guinea office and halt spot-market LNG purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTaiwan will close its representative office in Papua New Guinea later this month after the Pacific island country repeatedly demanded its closure, citing its \u201cone-China policy\u201d.<br \/>\nThe withdrawal will cut off Taiwanese technical assistance and end decades of cooperation with PNG, including halting spot-market purchases of the country\u2019s liquefied natural gas (LNG) \u2013 a move Taipei said could deal a blow to the nation\u2019s export earnings.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is deeply regrettable that, under pressure from [Beijing],&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3374232\/taiwan-close-papua-new-guinea-office-and-halt-spot-market-lng-purchases\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTaiwan will close its representative office in Papua New Guinea later this month after the Pacific island country repeatedly demanded its closure, citing its&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\/160139"}],"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=160139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}