{"id":1200,"date":"2026-04-30T02:30:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2026-09-06T07:11:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T07:11:59","slug":"why-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/why-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Taiwan Is the Indispensable Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Raghu Kondori, \u00a0in \u201cThe Jerusalem Strategic Tribune\u201d. Since the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) returned to power.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The geopolitical context for Taiwan is defined by Beijing\u2019s aggressive campaign to isolate the island diplomatically and economically, often referred to as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focustaiwan.tw\/politics\/202507290017\">\u201canaconda strategy<\/a>.\u201d Taiwan\u2019s response is a strategy of diplomatic resilience that prioritizes substantive relationships over formal recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article on <a href=\"https:\/\/jstribune.com\/why-taiwan-is-the-indispensable-island\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the\u00a0Jerusalem Strategic Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Raghu Kondori, \u00a0in \u201cThe Jerusalem Strategic Tribune\u201d. Since the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) returned to power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,238,239,237,25,8],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay","tag-china","tag-dpp","tag-kmt","tag-prc","tag-raghu-kondori","tag-taiwan"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/jp4-26.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1572,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/1572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahvand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}