{"id":38576,"date":"2013-08-22T07:48:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T11:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=38576"},"modified":"2013-08-22T10:57:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T14:57:39","slug":"st-kitts-nevis-loyal-to-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/08\/st-kitts-nevis-loyal-to-taiwan","title":{"rendered":"St Kitts-Nevis Loyal To Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s not likely to be any switch in relations from Taiwan to mainland China, even if the next election brings a change of government in St Kitts and Nevis. That assurance came from the opposition leader in the federal parliament, Mark Brantley. He told Winn FM that Taiwan has made substantial contributions to the federation, a view that both government and opposition are united on.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on behalf of the three party unity arrangement, Brantley said there was no thought of entertaining ties with Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell at this point there is no thought at all of moving the goal post,\u201d Brantley said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think St Kitts and Nevis has been really steadfast, a true friend of the people of Taiwan, unlike other countries, some nearby, which have flipped and flopped and tried to play dollar diplomacy between Taiwan and Mainland China,\u201d the opposition leader added.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-38581\" title=\"ma-ying-jeou\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ma-ying-jeou.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ma-ying-jeou.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ma-ying-jeou-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ma-ying-jeou-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nCaption: Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou and Prime Minister Denzil Douglas inspecting the guard of honour on Sunday shortly after the president arrived in St Kitts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Kitts and Nevis has stated there will not likely be a switch in relations from Taiwan to mainland China, even if the Caribbean nation&#8217;s next election brings a change of government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-38576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-caribbean-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}