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Letters | How Honduras election puts Taiwan on notice
- Readers discuss the implications of the upcoming Honduras election for Taiwan, the state of roads and parking enforcement in Hong Kong, and India as an investment destination
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I am writing in response to the article, “Is Taiwan about to lose another long-term ally to Beijing?” (September 11).
Honduras, a country that has been allied with Taiwan for 80 years, is about to elect a president, and a high-profile candidate, Xiomara Castro, insists that she will establish diplomatic and commercial ties with mainland China if she wins the November 28 presidential election.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, mainland China is known to have used Covid-19 vaccines as a political tool to put pressure on Taiwan’s allies to change allegiance.
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Taiwan is only able to count a total of 15 countries among its allies. With the upcoming presidential election in Honduras, Taiwan has been put on notice that its diplomatic relations with Honduras might be severed.
In a similar case, another country, Lithuania, was recently entangled in the cross-strait issue (“Taiwan could gain from stand-off between Beijing and Lithuania but must brace for backlash: analysts”, August 11).
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Lithuania, which has official diplomatic relations with mainland China, agreed in July to let Taiwan open a representative office in its capital. A diplomatic crisis soon erupted, with mainland China recalling its ambassador to Lithuania.
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