A few days ago, Nauru "broke off diplomatic relations with the Taiwan authorities in a surprise manner," and it was recently reported that foreign affairs personnel in Taiwan had a grudge against burning the Nauru national flag.
According to Taiwan's United News Network 28**, the Solomon Islands**SBM posted a short ** on Facebook on the 26th, the photographer should be a Nauruan person, and the other party turned over a cloth with dark blue as the main body and suspected to be the Nauru flag in the many paper documents that were burned. Taiwan media noticed that some netizens posted on the island's forum PTT that members of the technical group of Taiwan's "International Cooperation and Development Association" ("CCICED") also burned the national flag of Nauru when they destroyed documents, and the Nauruans recorded and called the police. The netizen said that the person who burned the Nauru flag had paid bail.
In this regard, Taiwan's deputy spokesman Xiao Guangwei responded on the 28th that after the termination of relations and all cooperation plans with Nauru, Taiwan's personnel began to handle the evacuation in accordance with the agreement between the two sides, including the centralized destruction of business files and items that do not need to be kept, so as to safeguard Taiwan's rights and interests and the security of business secrets. The relevant report "is malicious slander, expressing ** for such erroneous reports" and condemning the deliberate attempt to manipulate the content of the clip.
Relevant reports have sparked discussions on the island, with some netizens saying that "if you don't die, you won't die", "you can't burn the national flag in any country".
After Nauru, who will be the next to "sever diplomatic relations" with the Taiwan authorities? Taiwan's "China Times" said on the 28th that the much-watched Tuvalu parliamentary election came to an end, and the incumbent "friendly Taiwan" Prime Minister Natano lost his seat and lost the chance to be re-elected as prime minister. Finance Minister Paine New, who advocates a review of relations with Taiwan, has successfully retained his seat and will run for prime minister. Paine told Reuters on the 27th that the new ** should discuss "the issue of diplomatic recognition of Taipei or Beijing." "Prime Minister Natano's ** had extensive internal discussions on this issue when he took office, so there is no doubt that the new ** will also need to review the matter to decide on a policy stance," he said. However, the article also mentioned that the pro-Taiwan former Prime Minister Sopoaga was successfully re-elected as a member of parliament.
Taiwan's China Times Electronic News said that in addition to Tuvalu, Guatemala, located in Central America, is also considered to be likely to "sever diplomatic relations" with Taiwan. Ma Zhunwei, assistant professor at the Institute of International Affairs and Strategic Studies at Tamkang University, believes that among all the "countries with diplomatic relations" with Taiwan, Guatemala has the greatest probability of "severing diplomatic relations." The country's neighbors have turned to the People's Republic of China (PRC) to establish diplomatic relations, and Guatemala's diplomatic pivot is at the highest risk if they all enjoy tariffs and preferential concessions on imports and exports with the mainland, and are under pressure from regional economic development and integration.
*: Global Times.