{"id":1765,"date":"2018-09-13T19:36:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T19:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2018-09-13T19:36:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T19:36:35","slug":"taiwan-loses-another-ally-as-el-salvador-switches-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2018\/09\/13\/taiwan-loses-another-ally-as-el-salvador-switches-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan loses another ally as El Salvador switches to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/taiwan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taiwan<\/a>\u00a0now has formal relations with just 17 countries worldwide, many of them poor nations in Central America and the Pacific like Belize and Nauru.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not willing to continue with the money competition with China,&#8221; Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>He said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/el-salvador\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Salvador<\/a>\u00a0had been continuously asking for &#8220;massive funding support&#8221; since last year for a port development, but Taiwan was unable to assist with the &#8220;unsuitable project&#8221; after assessment. &#8220;Pressure from China would only make Taiwan more determined to continue our path of democracy and freedom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Separately, El Salvador&#8217;s President Salvador Sanchez Ceren announced in a nationally televised speech that his government had broken off diplomatic relations with Taiwan and instead established new diplomatic ties with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Taiwan has accused China of luring its friends away with offers of generous aid packages. China denies this, and says Taiwan is a part of China with no right to formal diplomatic ties with any other country.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen wrapped up a high-profile trip to Latin America, including stops in the United States, that drew broad criticism from China.<\/p>\n<p>Tsai on Monday echoed Wu&#8217;s comments, saying the self-ruled island would not bow to pressure and that pressure would only boost Taiwan&#8217;s &#8220;determination to go abroad&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>El Salvador is the fifth country Taiwan will lose as a diplomatic ally since President Tsai came to office in 2016, following Burkina Faso, the Dominican Republic, Sao Tome and Principe and Panama.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s hostility to Taiwan has grown since Tsai&#8217;s election as Beijing fears she wishes to push for the island\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20160117-china-taiwan-warns-independence-hallucination-presidential-election-tsai-ing-wen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">formal independence<\/a>, a red line for China. She says she wants to maintain the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/www.france24.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan\u00a0now has formal relations with just 17 countries worldwide, many of them poor nations in Central America and the Pacific like Belize and Nauru. &#8220;We are not willing to continue with the money competition with China,&#8221; Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said at a press conference. He said\u00a0El Salvador\u00a0had been continuously asking for &#8220;massive funding support&#8221; since last year for&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2018\/09\/13\/taiwan-loses-another-ally-as-el-salvador-switches-to-china\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}