{"id":3182,"date":"2024-01-15T04:39:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T04:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2024-01-15T04:44:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T04:44:36","slug":"singapore-congratulates-taiwans-newly-elected-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=3182","title":{"rendered":"Singapore congratulates Taiwan&#8217;s newly elected president"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>15 January 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After holding presidential elections in Taiwan, the current ruling party&#8217;s vice-president, Mr. Lai Chin-ti, was elected as president and Singapore is proud that the party won a third term.Although Singapore continues to accept the one-China policy, it also said that it will build a long-term relationship with Taiwan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/download-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/download-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/download-1-18x10.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The spokesperson added that Singapore has consistently supported the peaceful development of cross-strait relations.In Saturday&#8217;s election, Dr. Lai won with 40.5 percent of the vote, followed by Mr. Hou Yu-ih of the Kuomintang Party with 33.49 percent and Dr. Kou Wan-jae of the Taiwan People&#8217;s Party (TPP) with 26.46 percent, according to data from the Central Election Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 January 2024 After holding presidential elections in Taiwan, the current ruling party&#8217;s vice-president, Mr. Lai Chin-ti, was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3185,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions\/3185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}