‘UTTER FAILURE’: El Salvador’s switch to China just one day after President Tsai Ing-wen returned from state visits attests to the government’s policy failure, the KMT said
Taipei Times
Date: Aug 22, 2018
By: Stacy Hsu and Lee I-chia / Staff reporters, with CNA
The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) yesterday strongly condemned China
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Culture and Communications Committee deputy director-general Hung Meng-kai holds a news conference in Taipei yesterday, blaming President Tsai Ing-wen’s administration for Taiwan’s repeated diplomatic setbacks, after El Salvador cut ties with Taiwan in favor of China. Photo: CNA
for its attempts to press Taiwan into submitting to its political stance, after a long-time diplomatic ally announced that it was establishing ties with Beijing.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Wu (吳釗燮) earlier in the day announced that Taiwan was cutting diplomatic relations with El Salvador after the Central American nation asked for an “astronomical sum” of financial assistance for a port development project.
The council accused Beijing of ignoring Taipei’s goodwill and requests for dialogue on peace in the Taiwan Strait, and said China’s actions would only draw Taiwanese more firmly together.
Taiwan has stern faith in its capability to defend itself to protect its democratic system against communist China’s “brutish practices,” the council said. [FULL STORY]