{"id":57449,"date":"2018-09-08T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/09\/08\/palau-against-china-the-tiny-island-defying-the-worlds-biggest-country\/"},"modified":"2018-09-08T03:00:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T01:00:12","slug":"palau-against-china-the-tiny-island-defying-the-worlds-biggest-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=57449","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Palau against China!&#039;: the tiny island defying the world&#039;s biggest country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Archipelago is refusing to switch diplomatic allegiance from Taiwan to China, despite a huge downturn in its tourism industryWearing a Hawaiian shirt and sipping an iced tea, Ongerung Kambes Kesolei sits at a veranda bar overlooking a hotel pool, under fans that slowly push humid air around on a quiet Sunday afternoon.But the calm of the scene is deceptive, for Kesolei is explaining that his small island home of Palau \u2013 a dot on the map in the north-west corner of the Pacific with a population of just over 20,000 people \u2013 has attracted the ire of one of the world\u2019s most powerful nations and is now at the centre of a geo-political bunfight. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2018\/sep\/08\/palau-against-china-the-tiny-island-defying-the-worlds-biggest-country\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Palau against China!&#039;: the tiny island defying the world&#039;s biggest country<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archipelago is refusing to switch diplomatic allegiance from Taiwan to China, despite a huge downturn in its tourism industryWearing a Hawaiian shirt and sipping an iced tea, Ongerung Kambes Kesolei sits at a veranda bar overlooking a hotel pool, under fans that slowly push humid air around on a quiet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}