China Steps Up Taiwan Isolation After Election, Peeling Off Ally
- Taipei now has official diplomatic relations with 12 nations
- China has been peeling off the global chip hub’s partners
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One of Taiwan’s last diplomatic allies severed relations with the island and switched its alliance to China, after the global chip hub elected a new leader Beijing views as a “separatist.”
The government of Nauru, a tiny Pacific Island of 13,000 people, announced it will cut “diplomatic relations with Taiwan as of this day,” in a statement posted to its official Facebook page on Monday. It also vowed to stop developing “official exchanges with Taiwan.”