At a recent meeting in Chile with the foreign ministers from El Salvador, Dominican Republic and Haiti, the Taiwanese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, said that “relations with the Caribbean nations remain stable.”
The meeting of the diplomats from the Caribbean took place last week in Santiago de Chile on occasion of the ministerial meeting of the China-Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (China-CELAC) events and did not deal with “bilateral” agreements but rather hemispheric issues. With the ministers from Central America and the Caribbean, the Taiwanese Foreign Minister spoke of economic and commercial issues. He noted that the pressure from the People’s Republic of China, “has always existed” and is closely followed by the government of Taiwan. The island nation is seeking to strengthen its relations with its Latin American allies under guidelines of ”pragmatic and reciprocal diplomacy.”
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Diario Libre
25 January 2018
