{"id":8769,"date":"2026-04-21T19:20:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/?p=8769"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:20:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:20:04","slug":"taiwan-president-blames-china-for-forced-cancellation-of-eswatini-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/?p=8769","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan president blames China for forced cancellation of Eswatini trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Lai Ching-te abandons visit after Seychelles, Mauritius and Madagascar revoke overflight permission  <\/p>\n<p>Taiwan\u2019s president, Lai Ching-te, has cancelled his trip to Eswatini, the democratic island\u2019s only diplomatic ally in Africa, after his government said several countries had revoked overflight permits because of \u201cintense pressure\u201d from China.<\/p>\n<p>Lai was to leave on Wednesday for the 40th anniversary of King Mswati III\u2019s accession.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/21\/taiwan-president-blames-china-cancel-eswatini-revoke-flight\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lai Ching-te abandons visit after Seychelles, Mauritius and Madagascar revoke overflight permission Taiwan\u2019s president, Lai Ching-te, has cancelled his trip to Eswatini, the democratic island\u2019s only diplomatic ally in Africa, after his government said several countries had revoked overflight permits because of \u201cintense pressure\u201d from China. Lai was to leave on Wednesday for the 40th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[92,46,42,111,137,499,155,303,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-eswatini","category-madagascar","category-mauritius","category-seychelles","category-taiwan","category-world-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oko-oko.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}