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Breaking: #Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry held a press conference at 9:30 am to announce the decision to break diplomatic relations with Honduras. The news comes as Honduras prepares to establish ties with #China. cna.com.tw/news/aipl/2023…
Update: In response to #Taiwan's Central News Agency, the White House National Security Council said even though Honduras' move is a sovereign decision, it's worth noting that China often makes promises in exchange for diplomatic ties, but they often fail to deliver the promises.
The White House spokesperson said the US will continue to deepen and expand exchanges with Taiwan based on the One China Policy and the US strongly encourages other countries to expand interactions with Taiwan.
Meanwhile, #China and Honduras announced establishing diplomatic ties:
An interesting remark from former #Taiwan President Ma Ying-Jeou's team regarding the news that Taiwan has severed diplomatic ties with #Honduras. He said Ma's upcoming trip to #China is an attempt to "make up for the broken diplomatic net" created by the Taiwan government.

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Mar 28
"An investigation by The Associated Press has found that #China and its U.S.-based advocates spent years building relationships with Utah’s officials and lawmakers." apnews.com/article/china-…
"Those efforts have paid dividends at home and abroad, the AP found: Lawmakers delayed legislation Beijing didn’t like, nixed resolutions that conveyed displeasure with its actions and expressed support in ways that enhanced the Chinese government’s image."
Beijing’s success in Utah shows “how pervasive and persistent China has been in trying to influence America,” said Frank Montoya Jr., a retired FBI counterintelligence agent who lives in Utah.
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Mar 28
My latest: Remote islands in Japan's Okinawa prefecture have begun evacuation drills amid worries that #China could attack #Taiwan. But experts say the task may be much harder than it appears. Feat: @kyokohat, @knakano1970, @elleshii and @JBKing33: dw.com/en/japan-holds…
On March 18, Japan's Okinawa prefecture carried out its first simulated exercise that aims at evacuating around 100,000 residents from remote islands close to Taiwan.
Officials are concerned about southern Japan being affected by a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Both local and national authorities in Japan took part in the exercise which was staged in several cities on the Sakishima Islands, about 360 kilometers away from Taiwan.
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Mar 28
The speaker of Czech Republic’s lower house, @market_a, opened a keynote speech at #Taiwan’s NTU by highlighting the importance of Prague and Taipei being connected by the value of human rights, freedom and democracy. Image
"Beijing should know that #Taiwan has a lot of democratic allies and if they attack Taiwan, they will lose Europe in a economic and diplomatic sense," she said.
She highlighted the importance of #Taiwan being mentioned in the Czech Republic's Indo-Pacific strategy for the first time and she said she hopes Europe sees through her trip that interacting with Taiwan is beneficial.
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Mar 28
"#China has significantly expanded its bailout lending as its Belt and Road Initiative blows up following a series of debt write-offs, scandal-ridden projects and allegations of corruption." ft.com/content/9b2cb5…
"A study published on Tuesday shows China granted $104bn worth of rescue loans to developing countries between 2019 and the end of 2021. The figure for these years is almost as large as the country’s bailout lending over the previous two decades."
"Between 2000 and the end of 2021, China undertook 128 bailout operations in 22 debtor countries worth a total of $240bn."
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Mar 27
My latest: Three decades after #China enshrined the goal of a "socialist market economy" in its constitution, the era of "reform and opening up" appears to have ended, say experts. With insights from @dtiffroberts, @GolleyJane and @acollier. dw.com/en/chinas-soci…
On March 29, 1993, China formally amended its constitution and adopted the "socialist market economy" as the country's economic system.
It laid the foundation for the "development of the socialist rule of law," and by incorporating the concept into the constitution, shaped the direction of China's economic development, according to the People's Daily.
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Mar 27
Activists urge #China to protect hundreds of thousands of North Korean women and girls that fled into Chinese territory. Many of the refugees are reportedly being trafficked, raped, and forced into sexual slavery. dw.com/en/north-korea…
Around half a million female North Koreans, some as young as 12, are hiding in border regions of China, according to a new report by an international human rights law firm Global Rights Compliance.
Global Rights Compliance found over 4,340 documented cases of human trafficking of North Korean women from China in the last decade and at least 80,000 reported abuses of human rights.
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