{"id":112687,"date":"2018-05-17T09:20:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T13:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=112687"},"modified":"2018-05-17T09:20:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T13:20:23","slug":"eduardo-estrella-says-dr-was-ungrateful-to-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/05\/17\/eduardo-estrella-says-dr-was-ungrateful-to-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Eduardo Estrella says DR was \u201cungrateful\u201d to Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_112673\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112673\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-112673\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Eduardo-Estrella-7-Dias-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-112673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eduardo Estrella \/ 7 D\u00edas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the well-known political figure Eduardo Estrella, the founder of the Dominicans for Change (DXC) party, the Dominican government was \u201cungrateful\u201d towards Taiwan, when it unexpectedly broke relations last week with its former partner.<\/p>\n<p>Estrella said that the Dominican recognition of the People\u2019s Republic of China was especially unfortunate considering the fact that just a few months ago the country had received 90 SUVs, two helicopters and 100 motorcycles that were donated by Taiwan to the Ministry of Defense.<\/p>\n<p>Estrella noted that the spokesman for the Presidential Palace (Roberto Rodriguez Marchena announced on 30 April 2018 that they had just informed the ambassador from Taiwan moments before making the public announcement about the break in relations and the forthcoming signing of diplomatic ties with the PRC.<\/p>\n<p>Estrella said that the Dominican government has been continually referring to the expected arrival of millions of Chinese tourists that, in his opinion, is just never going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Estrella said that he is not opposed to the new relationship with the People\u2019s Republic of China. But, he warned that the Dominican Republic needs to prepare itself in order to deal with this new commercial partner because the Dominican Republic is at a very real disadvantage in every aspect.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.7dias.com.do\/portada\/2018\/05\/16\/i243507_eduardo-estrella-piensa-que-gobierno-dominicano-sido-ingrato-con-taiwan.html#.WvxvGJoh1QE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">7 Dias<\/a><\/p>\n<p>17 May 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the well-known political figure Eduardo Estrella, the founder of the Dominicans for Change (DXC) party, the Dominican government was \u201cungrateful\u201d towards Taiwan, when it unexpectedly broke relations last week with its former partner. Estrella said that the Dominican recognition of the People\u2019s Republic of China was especially unfortunate considering the fact that just &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/05\/17\/eduardo-estrella-says-dr-was-ungrateful-to-taiwan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}