Taiwan, a country still controlled by the Republic of China, has formal ties with a total of 17 countries around the world. Since the election of their president Tsai Ing-wen in 2016, Taiwan has lost five diplomatic allies, including Burkina Faso, the Dominican Republic, Sao Tome and Principe, Panama, and El Salvador, who decided to end relations with Taiwan after… Read more »
Taiwan now has formal relations with just 17 countries worldwide, many of them poor nations in Central America and the Pacific like Belize and Nauru. “We are not willing to continue with the money competition with China,” Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said at a press conference. He said El Salvador had been continuously asking for “massive funding support” since last year for… Read more »
Police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets while allegedly pro-government mobs attacked demonstrators, photographers and even the US ambassador’s car. Students said on Tuesday that many went back to school as they fear further government repression if the protests continued. “We are panicked. We hear that some of the students who took part in yesterday’s protests have been arrested,” a private university student… Read more »
The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination cited estimates that up to one million Uighurs may be held involuntarily in extra-legal detention in China‘s far western Xinjiang province. Its findings were issued after a two-day review this month of China’s record, the first since 2009. China’s foreign ministry rejected the allegations at the time, and said anti-China forces were behind the criticism… Read more »
Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, who have been held in Yangon’s Insein prison since their arrest in December, were charged with violating the Official Secrets Act, a draconian British colonial-era law which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years. The case has sparked an outcry among the international community as an attempt to muzzle reporting on last… Read more »