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South China
Date: 17 Sep, 2019
By: Sarah Zheng
Beijing has warned Taipei that it will lose all of its diplomatic allies if Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-
wen is re-elected in 2020.
The ominous message from Xiakedao – a social media account run by the overseas edition of Communist Party mouthpiece People’s Daily – was part of an article posted on Monday after the
Solomon Islands [1]
became the sixth country to cut ties with Taipei for Beijing during Tsai’s presidency.
The article blamed Tsai and her independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party for the chill in relations between Taiwan and mainland China.
“As long as the DPP is in power, sooner or later Taiwan will have zero diplomatic allies left,” it said. “Only by first improving cross-strait mutual trust can Taiwan open up its ‘international space’. If the Tsai administration still refuses to come to its senses, then there will only be more ‘diplomatic crises’ to come.” [FULL STORY]
