El Salvador breaks ties with Taiwan, leaving Taiwan with only 17 allies - Polidicks

https://www.dw.com/en/el-salvador-dumps-taiwan-for-china/a-45155270 Taiwan on Tuesday broke off diplomatic relations with El Salvador because the Central American country is switching allegiance to China. The move leaves Taiwan with only 17 diplomatic allies around the world, as Beijing, which claims sovereignty over the self-ruled island, continues in its attempts to isolate it on the international stage. "All bilateral cooperation projects will be terminated. We will begin to recall all diplomatic staff and technical teams," Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu told a news conference in Taipei. Wu added that Taiwan had been aware of El Salvador's intention to build diplomatic ties with China since June, in order to receive investment and aid from China. "China's arbitrary behavior has had negative impacts on the relations across the Taiwan Strait," he said. Beijing has a "One China" principle that requires other nations to avoid formal diplomatic recognition of Taiwan. The island has had a separate government since Chinese Nationalists fled there in 1949 after they lost the civil war to the Communists. China's official Xinhua news agency meanwhile reported that Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Salvador's Foreign Minister Carlos Castaneda had signed a communique establishing diplomatic relations. Castaneda said that establishing formal ties with Beijing was a strategic and an historic decision for the Latin American country, according to Xinhua. Wang said El Salvador was establishing ties with China "without any preconditions" and would be a partner in Beijing's Belt and Road infrastructure investment project. Beijing has been putting increasing pressure on the island ever since Taiwan's independence-leaning President Tsai Ing-wen took office in May 2016. Tsai's ruling Democratic Progressive Party has refused to endorse Beijing's "One China" principle. Over the past two years, China has gotten four of Taiwan's allies, including the Gambia, Sao Tome and Principe, Panama and Burkina Faso to break with Taiwan. Tsai said the diplomatc incident about El Salvador is just part of what she called China's cheap "verbal intimidation and saber-rattling."

I wonder if China would legit have the balls to do anything about it if America recognized Taiwan as an independent country

I'd say they could introduce trade tariffa but well...

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I guess the upside to Trump shitting on the international economy is the US is less dependent on China's economic might so they can say such things more freely.

Its not exactly like anything has changed, we still import a shitload of stuff from china and they need to export a shitload of stuff to us, the US declaring a new stance on taiwan would just end with more saber rattling from china

The US should become more dependent on Europe, to be honest. Once Trump is out, we could possibly pursue new deals that'd bring us closer to Europe. It'd improve relations with nations such as France and Germany, and it'd decrease our dependency on the military state that is China.

yeah the US and Chinese economies are incredibly interlinked. If they tried something against the US (or vice versa), both of our economies would probably collapse and thus the rest of the worlds would eventually follow. Not exactly in eithers best interest.

Ya but Europe is increasingly dependent on China as well. They just don't have the resources to do everything and their relationships with Africa are not great.

Trade with countries like China is good, even if their values are opposed to our own. It's the biggest barrier to military conflict between superpowers - the cost of war would outweigh the cost of cooperation. Anyone who wants the West to stop trading with China is just begging for WWIII.

The world as a whole should just band together and fucking tell China to fuck right off with their one-china policy and recognize Taiwan.

Taiwan should just officially declare independence from China (throw in a referendum if you must) as a fuck you to the PRC.

I think they more or less already did, it's the entirely reason Taiwan is a thing. ROC is the part of China that came first, but lost the civil war on the mainland against the communist and retreated to the island that is Taiwan.

I knew that, but I thought (given they still keep the official title of ROC) they still claimed to be the rightful Chinese nation? Either way it seems better to officially/formally cut ties.