Marshall Islands will support Taiwan despite pressure from China

Radio Taiwan International
Date: 25 October, 2019
By: Leslie Liao

The Marshall Islands will continue to stand with Taiwan despite increasingly complex regional politics

and pressure from China. That was the word from Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine, who is in Taiwan on a state visit.

President Tsai Ing-wen met with the Marshall Islands leader on Friday morning. Heine said that without Taiwan, her country would not have been able to become a member of the United Nation’s Human Rights Council earlier this year. Heine said that Taiwan and the Marshall Islands share a true friendship, and that this will not change despite external pressure.
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