{"id":32712,"date":"2022-01-18T09:13:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T09:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=32712"},"modified":"2022-01-18T09:13:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T09:13:04","slug":"taiwan-has-paid-us900000-for-ally-guatemala-to-lobby-us-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=32712","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan has paid US$900,000 for ally Guatemala to lobby US officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostGuatemala has hired for US$900,000 a major supporter of former president Donald Trump to seek influence with US officials in an unusual lobbying contract paid for by its ally Taiwan, foreign lobby records show.Ballard Partners registered as a foreign agent with the US Justice Department on January 13, according to new filings made public over the weekend. The contract, dated January 12, was signed by Alfonso Quinonez, Guatemala\u2019s ambassador to the US, and Brian Ballard, president of the\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3163814\/taiwan-has-paid-us900000-ally-guatemala-lobby-us-officials?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 PostGuatemala has hired for US$900,000 a major supporter of former president Donald Trump to seek influence with US officials in an unusual lobbying contract&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":32713,"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\/32712"}],"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=32712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}