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China and Nicaragua have moved to re-establish diplomatic relations. (File)
Taipei:
On Tuesday, Taiwan’s foreign minister said Nicaragua’s decision to cut ties with Taiwan was part of a deliberate move by China to target the island’s diplomatic allies after the country was excluded from the country. Democratic summit hosted by Washington.
Nicaragua severed longstanding diplomatic ties with Taiwan last week, turning allegiance to Beijing in recognition of the Chinese Communist Party’s One China policy and curtailing its dwindling number of international allies. of Taipei.
“When democratic countries hold democracy summits, China is excluded, China is the target, so China has chosen this opportunity to target our diplomatic allies,” Foreign Minister said. Chief Joseph Wu spoke on the sidelines of a forum on regional security.
Digital Minister Audrey Tang and Taiwan’s de facto ambassador to Washington Hsiao Bi-khim represented the island at the Biden administration’s “Summit for Democracy” last week. China is not on the US State Department’s invitation list.
“Losing a diplomatic ally is a very painful thing for us,” Wu told reporters.
China’s Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Beijing has ramped up military and political pressure for Taiwan to accept its claims, drawing anger from the democratically ruled island, which has repeatedly vowed to be free from bullying and have the right to participate internationally.
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said the island would not put pressure on or change its resolve to uphold democracy and freedom.
“The more successful Taiwan’s democracy, the stronger the international support and the greater the pressure from the authoritarian camp,” she said in Taipei.
The move by China and Nicaragua to re-establish diplomatic relations is likely to boost Beijing’s influence in an area long seen as the backyard of the United States, angering Washington.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega first severed ties with Taiwan in 1985, but they were re-established with the island in 1990 under then Nicaraguan President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro.
Wu said all of his colleagues in the foreign ministry “have made every effort to maintain these diplomatic relations.”
Nicaragua’s severance of ties with Taiwan leaves the island with only 14 official diplomatic allies, most of them in Latin America and the Caribbean, along with a few small nations.
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