Honduras Seeks Diplomatic Switch from Taiwan to China

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The Spin

Anti-China narrative

Honduras is being used by China in its campaign to isolate Taiwan. The plan uses trade and investment — including its multi-billion-dollar Belt and Road initiative to build ports, railways, power plants, and other infrastructure for developing nations — as incentives for switching diplomatic ties. Before Honduras, where China is constructing a massive dam, China bribed Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.

Pro-China narrative

Taiwan is an inalienable part of China, and the PRC government is the country’s representative. Any attempt to unilaterally add preconditions and provisos to the one-China principle is illegal. So Honduras, and other Central American countries that haven’t done so already, should do the right thing and cut ties with Taiwan.


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