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<p>Source: <a href="http://supchina.com">SupChina</a> (8/21/18)<br />
Taiwan loses El Salvador<br />
Beijing counted another small victory in its decades-long endeavor to box Taiwan out of international space when yet another country broke diplomatic ties with the island in favor of the PRC: El Salvador.<br />
By Lucas Niewenhuis</p>
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<li><strong>El Salvador’s president, Salvador Sánchez Cerén,</strong> said in a televised address, “We are convinced this is a step in the right direction that corresponds to the principles of international law, of international relations and the inevitable trends of our time,” the Guardian <a href="https://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=5fc5b3ddcb&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Taiwan’s foreign minister, Joseph Wu, said that the real issue</strong> was that “El Salvador had asked Taiwan to provide an ‘astronomical sum’ in financial aid for a port project that officials believed would leave both countries in debt,” according to the Guardian.</li>
<li><strong>A tweeted statement</strong> from Taiwan’s foreign ministry, initialed JW for Joseph Wu, further <a href="https://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=7c44ac3ac3&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a>: “As a responsible member of the global community, Taiwan will not engage in dollar nor debt-trap diplomacy. This is why El Salvador’s repeated requests for assistance with an unfeasible port development were declined.”</li>
<li><strong>Opposition lawmakers in El Salvador </strong>indicated there was another controversy that led to the decision to break ties: “the government of the FMLN (Sanchez Ceren’s political party) asked [Taiwan] for money to finance the campaign in 2019,” one lawmaker said, a claim that a government spokesperson said was “totally false,” <a href="https://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=6194756640&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AP reports</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen</strong> also weighed in: “We will turn to countries with similar values to fight together against China's increasingly out-of-control international behavior” (<a href="https://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=64db84db67&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a>).</li>
<li><strong>“El Salvador is the fifth country Taiwan will lose</strong> as a diplomatic ally since Tsai came to office in 2016, following Burkina Faso, the Dominican Republic, Sao Tome and Principe and Panama,” Reuters notes.</li>
<li><strong>But Taipei-based reporter Chris Horton,</strong> who covered the news for the <a href="https://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=76ff496305&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a> (paywall), <a href="https://supchina.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=05fc7fc9529b01bb9bd1abfa7&id=0aa8a7b8c7&e=b3d625469d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed out on Twitter</a>: “Always worth restating that Taiwan's unofficial allies, including the US and Japan are vastly more important than any remaining official diplomatic relationships.”</li>
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by <a href="mailto:denton.2@osu.edu">denton.2@osu.edu</a> on August 23, 2018 </div>
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