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Last African Allies Stick By Taiwan

Since the landslide election of pro-independence candidate Tsai Ing-wen as president of Taiwan last January, Beijing has been ramping up pressure on the de facto independent island nation, making bids to diplomatically isolate Taiwan and warning that blame for cross-strait conflict would be Tsai’s for her refusal to endorse the One-China policy. Beijing has also been using its economic strength to woo some of Taiwan’s last remaining allies