https://www.scmp.com/rss/500148/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com As more Latin American countries switch diplomatic recognition from the island of Taiwan to mainland China, the Western narrative is that Beijing’s dollar and vaccine diplomacy is working. Nicaragua has become the latest in Latin America and the Caribbean to recognise mainland China. It was preceded by El Salvador and the Dominican Republic. Panama, though, was the first to sign up for China’s Belt and Road Initiative in 2017, shortly after it established diplomatic relations with Beijing. Why... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3160007/why-latin-america-wants-be-friends-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3160007/why-latin-america-wants-be-friends-china?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 16 Dec 2021 21:49:38 +0000 Zhao Ziwen,Teddy Ng Zhao Ziwen,Teddy Ng Beijing’s wooing of Taiwan’s ally Nicaragua on Friday is not just retaliation for the island’s independence efforts but it is also a sign of intensifying rivalry between China and the US in America’s own backyard, according to observers. Nicaragua brings to four the number of Central American nations that have established formal relations with Beijing in recent years, following Panama in 2017 and El Salvador in 2018. The Dominican Republic in the Caribbean also switched to Beijing in... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3159271/why-chinas-nicaragua-move-much-about-us-it-about-taiwan?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3159271/why-chinas-nicaragua-move-much-about-us-it-about-taiwan?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 10 Dec 2021 12:37:01 +0000 Catherine Wong,Lawrence Chung Catherine Wong,Lawrence Chung China’s senior diplomat hit back at the United States on Friday over pressure on Central American nations not to switch recognition from Taipei to Beijing, saying more countries would make the change. Foreign Minister Wang Yi took aim at Washington after Beijing established formal ties with Managua. In a meeting with his Nicaraguan counterpart Denis Moncada in Tianjin, Wang said few countries remained allies of Taiwan because of the island’s “money diplomacy” and pressure from the US. Wang said... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3159140/taiwan-loses-another-ally-nicaragua-switching-ties-beijing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3159140/taiwan-loses-another-ally-nicaragua-switching-ties-beijing?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 10 Dec 2021 01:30:25 +0000 A man who stowed away in the landing gear of an American Airlines flight from Guatemala was discovered by airport crew in Miami on Saturday – apparently after the plan had already arrived at the gate. The man, who came off of American Airlines flight 1182, which landed about 10am local time on Saturday, was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital. A video posted on Instagram by Miami local social news site Only in Dade said the flight took about two hours and 30 minutes. A maintenance worker who... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3157649/stowaway-guatemala-survives-flight-us-hiding-planes?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3157649/stowaway-guatemala-survives-flight-us-hiding-planes?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 28 Nov 2021 04:52:24 +0000 Reuters Reuters Taiwan will respect the outcome of the Honduras election but the country should be aware of getting sucked in by mainland China’s “false” promises, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday ahead of a vote which could see Taipei lose a steadfast ally to Beijing. Honduras is one of only 15 countries that maintain formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own territory. Taiwan and Honduras have a relationship dating back to 1941, before the Republic of China government fled to... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3157045/taiwan-says-it-will-respect-honduras-vote-outcome-despite?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3157045/taiwan-says-it-will-respect-honduras-vote-outcome-despite?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Nov 2021 06:26:43 +0000 The governments of Mexico and Guatemala have launched a joint military-police operation along their common border aimed at blocking caravans of migrants hoping to reach the United States. The Biden administration had sent envoys to the two countries on Monday to seek their help as it struggles to control a surge of migrants seeking to reach its southern border. “The criminal networks of human traffickers have sold them (the migrants) the illusion that they can reach the border with the United... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3127369/mexico-and-guatemala-launch-military-operation-slow-migrant?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3127369/mexico-and-guatemala-launch-military-operation-slow-migrant?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 28 Mar 2021 19:35:46 +0000 Corn is a pretty common sight in China, where sweet corn is often used in dishes, and maize supplies go to everything from livestock feed, to biofuel. But corn isn’t natively from China. For that, China has the Philippines and Macau to thank, when the former was a Spanish colony, and Macau was under the Portuguese. Maize, which originated in Central America, was one of the first crops traded by European colonialists in the east. From their other mesoamerican territories, the Spanish and... https://www.scmp.com/food/how-corn-ended-china-americas/article/2158689?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/food/how-corn-ended-china-americas/article/2158689?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 07 Aug 2018 12:00:30 +0000