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The Taiwanese leader effectively had to cancel a visit to eSwatini, the island\u2019s last partner in Africa, for the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of King Mswati III\u2019s accession to the throne and his 58th birthday.<br \/>\nTaiwan said the visit was \u201cpostponed\u201d after the Seychelles, Mauritius and Madagascar cancelled their previously approved overflight permission without warning.<br \/>\nLai and his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another big humiliation for William Lai Ching-te. The Taiwanese leader effectively had to cancel a visit to eSwatini, the island\u2019s last partner in Africa, for the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of King Mswati III\u2019s accession to the throne and his 58th birthday. Taiwan said the visit was \u201cpostponed\u201d after the Seychelles, Mauritius [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-china-morning-post"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kuomintang gets the carrots, DPP the stick - Sting FM<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kuomintang gets the carrots, DPP the stick - Sting FM\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Another day, another big humiliation for William Lai Ching-te. 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