Posted on 03/15/2023 3:52:23 AM PDT by FarCenter
Tegucigalpa (AFP) – Honduras will establish diplomatic relations with China, President Xiomara Castro said Tuesday, a move that would result in the severing of longstanding official ties with Taiwan.
The switch -- which Castro pledged to make while on the campaign trail -- comes weeks after her government announced it was negotiating with China to build a hydroelectric dam.
Under Beijing's "One China" principle, no country may maintain official diplomatic relations with both China and Taiwan.
Castro, who became her country's first woman president in 2022, wrote on Twitter that she had instructed Foreign Minister Eduardo Reina "to undertake the opening of official relations with the People's Republic of China."
Beijing said it "welcomed" the decision, with foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin telling journalists: "On the basis of the One-China principle, China is willing to develop friendly and cooperative relations with Honduras and other countries in the world."
Conversely, Taiwan's foreign ministry expressed "serious concern" at the announcement.
"We ask Honduras to carefully consider and do not fall into China's trap and make the wrong decision to damage the long-term friendship between Taiwan and Honduras," it said in a statement.
Honduras is one of only 14 countries that officially recognize Taiwan, a self-ruled island that China considers part of its territory to be retaken one day, by force if necessary.
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In yet another blow to the Biden administrations foreign policy blunders.
Another failure. China and Russia making more inroads in the Western Hemisphere as it wars against God.
Winning was nice while it lasted.
Xi and Putin have been reading George Kennan. It appears that BRICS+ is their version of NATO, CENTO, SEATO, etc. I can only hope they are successful in containing the Woke, Green, Pervo, Globalist, Monolithic Crusade.
“That reason and the fact that the average IQ of Hondurans is at subsaharan levels, and that it is always in competition for murder capital of the world.”
Heh, we were talking about Honduras, not Chicago or Baltimore or Memphis or St. Louis.
Things like this happens when you have a government LASER-FOCUSED in destroying Russia and not giving a crap as to what happens in the rest of the world. Thankfully both top GOP candidates are sick of this Ukraine obsession, so at least some sanity is slowly returning to DC.
Westward expansion to global dominance.The Beast.
Full court press against US now with that Walter Mitty coward in the white hut.
Good luck with that, Honduras. They apparently are unaware of the debt trap and other problems (like, the dam will be substandard construction) that come with buddying up to China.
Chicoms laugh.
Their free money is never free.
Faustian bargain comes to mind.
But the Confucius Institute will help them learn simplified Chinese.
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