Guatemala’s new government is considering developing trade relations with China, the Central American country’s foreign minister told Reuters news agency, while assuring that it wants to maintain official relations with Taiwan.
Guatemala’s new government is considering developing trade relations with China, the Central American country’s foreign minister told Reuters news agency, while assuring that it wants to maintain official relations with Taiwan.
“We will continue to work with Taiwan,” Guatemala’s new foreign minister, Carlos Ramiro Martinez, said during an interview with the agency. “However”, he added, “the (new) president (Bernardo Arevalo) has pointed out that we cannot ignore the weight and power of China”.
This pursuit seems incompatible with the policy of China, which regards Taiwan as its province simply pending reunification with the mainland after the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949. In the name of the “one China” doctrine, Beijing does not allows other states to maintain diplomatic relations with Taipei if they wish to have relations with it. For more than 70 years, China and Taiwan have been fighting a fierce battle for the diplomatic recognition of countries around the world.
In recent years, Beijing has wrested from Taipei several of its former allies in Latin America, including the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Honduras.
The Vatican, the Kingdom of Iswatini (formerly Swaziland), some Pacific island countries, Haiti, Paraguay and Guatemala are among the only 12 states that still maintain formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
Source :Skai
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