{"id":7412,"date":"2019-08-01T13:01:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T08:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=7412"},"modified":"2019-08-01T13:01:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T08:01:21","slug":"china-to-halt-individual-travel-to-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/7412","title":{"rendered":"China to halt individual travel to Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has announced the suspension of individual travel permits to Taiwan citing the current state of ties with the self-governed island.<\/p>\n<p>The move on Wednesday halts a program that allowed Chinese citizens in 47 mainland cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen, to apply for permits to visit Taiwan on their own instead of group tours.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s\u00a0Ministry of Culture and Tourism\u00a0said such trips would be suspended from August 1 &#8220;due to current cross-strait relations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between Beijing and Taipei have plummeted since President Tsai Ing-wen\u00a0came to power in 2016 because her party refuses to recognise the idea that Taiwan is part of &#8220;one China&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan President called this ban a \u201cmajor strategic mistake\u201d amid heightened tension with giant neighbor China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has announced the suspension of individual travel permits to Taiwan citing the current state of ties with the self-governed island. The move on Wednesday halts a program that allowed Chinese citizens in 47 mainland cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai and Xiamen, to apply for permits to visit Taiwan on their own instead of group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1380,31,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-news","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7415,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412\/revisions\/7415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}