DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

Jose Singer / Acento

Former Dominican ambassador to the United Nations, Jose Singer Weisinger sees the relations of China and Dominican Republic as a one-sided relationship that merits rethinking. He says the DR has little to show from breaking with Taiwan on 30 April 2018 to establish full relations with China during the second Danilo Medina administration.

In an opinion piece in Acento, he complains that the DR has a bad deal with China. He is most critical that China, a member of the United Nations’ National Security Council, has not voted in favor of the proposal to turn the Kenya-deployed mission in Haiti to a Peace Force with more support from the United Nations. Singer says the positive vote would not cost anything to China. He does not understand the position China has maintained in the Security Council.

The position of the Dominican government has been to back the request by the...