{"id":207290,"date":"2018-05-25T15:26:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T22:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=207290"},"modified":"2018-05-27T21:33:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T04:33:58","slug":"burkina-faso-cuts-ties-with-taiwan-as-beijing-continues-asserting-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2018\/05\/burkina-faso-cuts-ties-with-taiwan-as-beijing-continues-asserting-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso Cuts Ties with Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weeks after the Dominican Republic switched its diplomatic allegiance<\/a> from Taiwan to China, Burkina Faso\u2014one of Taiwan’s last remaining African allies\u2014has done the same. This move comes after the West African nation pledged in early 2017 to stick by Taipei, reportedly refusing<\/a> a hefty investment offer from Beijing, and as China has been increasingly leveraging its economic and diplomatic clout to put pressure on Taiwan\u2014a self-governed nation that Beijing considers an “inalienable part of China.”<\/a> At NPR, Rob Schmitz reports on Burkina Faso’s cutting of ties with Taiwan, and notes Beijing’s recent use of economic, diplomatic, and military strategy to isolate Taiwan<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

Taiwan lost another ally on Thursday. The West African country Burkina Faso became the latest country to cut ties with the island. After the Dominican Republic, that’s two in less than one month. And like other countries, including the United States, that for decades have broken diplomatic relations with Taiwan, they did so for one reason: to please China.<\/p>\n

The Chinese government refuses to maintain diplomatic relations with any nation that recognizes Taiwan and has long pressured countries to sever ties with the island.<\/p>\n

[…W]hile China has long used diplomatic and commercial might to isolate Taiwan, it has also recently displayed its military strategy. Last month, China conducted a live-fire drill in the Taiwan Strait for the first time in two years. That was soon followed by bombers, surveillance aircraft, and fighter jets from China’s air force that have been circling Taiwan on a semiregular basis in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

But military experts offer different takes on what it may mean: some view the drills as routine exercises, but others say this could be a glimpse of future plans for invasion. […] [Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Over less than 20 years, 14 countries have severed formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan<\/a>. Following the severing of diplomatic ties with Burkina Faso and the Dominican Republic, only 18 countries (including the Vatican) have official relations with Taiwan.<\/p>\n

At CNN, Bard Wilkinson reports on Taipei’s reaction to Burkina Faso’s severing of relations<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen accused China of “serial acts of suppression” and “dollar diplomacy” after Burkina Faso became the second country in a month to break off diplomatic ties with the island in favor of Beijing.<\/p>\n

[…] “This is a warning to the Chinese government: This behavior is detrimental to cross-strait relations and China’s international image, and does nothing to ease the international community’s concerns about China,” President Tsai told reporters<\/a> in an unusually strongly worded statement late Thursday.<\/p>\n

“China’s suppression will only make Taiwan’s partnerships in the international community even closer. We will never give in,” she added.<\/p>\n

[…] Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu<\/a> said he had offered his resignation to President Tsai. He added that his country will also halt all bilateral cooperative projects, cut all assistance to Burkina Faso, and pull out its diplomatic staff and technical missions from the African country. […] [Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since the landslide election of pro-independence candidate Tsai Ing-wen as president of Taiwan in January 2016<\/a>, Beijing has been steadily ramping up pressure on the island. Months after Tsai’s win, China suspended communication with Taipei<\/a>. Beijing has also increased its assertion of pressure on corporate entities<\/a> to reinforce its claim to the de facto independent island nation.\u00a0This week, Chinese authorities issued a fine for Japanese retailer MUJI for listing Taiwan as the country of origin<\/a> for some products sold in China.\u00a0Earlier this month, U.S.-based clothing company Gap issued an apology to China for printing a t-shirt with a map of China<\/a> that didn’t include Taiwan, parts of Tibet, and islands in the South China Sea claimed by Beijing after Chinese social media users drew attention to the product. Last month, China’s Civil Aviation Authority issued a letter to 36 foreign airlines calling for them to reclassify Taiwan<\/a> (as well as\u00a0Hong Kong and Macao) as territories under Beijing’s sovereignty. The\u00a0White House dismissed the letter<\/a> as \u201cOrwellian nonsense and part of a growing trend by the Chinese Communist Party to impose its political views on American citizens and private companies.\u201d While many foreign airlines have followed suit, major American airlines have not.<\/p>\n

At the South China Morning Post, Choi Chi-yuk cites Taiwan’s former deputy minister of the Mainland Affairs Council stressing the need to bolster ties with Washington in the face of increased hostility from China<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Taiwan will have to try to get closer to Washington in the face of increased pressure from mainland China, a former minister from the island has warned.<\/p>\n

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Alexander Huang Chieh-cheng, a former deputy minister on Taiwan\u2019s Mainland Affairs Council, was speaking after the self-ruled island lost another ally on Thursday, with Burkina Faso breaking its diplomatic ties with Taipei.<\/p>\n

Taiwan retaliated by tightening its screening of mainland officials visiting the island.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most desirable thing for Taiwan is that both Washington and Beijing are kind to the island, but now Beijing has shut the door of communication,\u201d Huang said, [Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Last year, Taiwanese delegates and journalists were absent from the World Health Authority’s annual\u00a0World Health Assembly<\/a> for the first time since 2009, when Beijing allowed Taiwan observer status amid warming cross-strait relations. The WHO again denied Taiwanese media outlets press accreditation to this year’s WHA this week, a decision that the Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

“The barring of Taiwan’s journalists from the WHO assembly is especially troubling for the simple reason that global health issues have no respect for borders or nationality,” said Steven Butler, CPJ’s Asia program coordinator, in Washington, D.C. “China’s persistent efforts to isolate Taiwan should not be allowed to block the reporting of vital health-related news or thwart the UN’s mission to uphold press freedom.”<\/p>\n

During a UN press briefing<\/a> on May 12, a spokesperson said, “Only journalists coming from countries recognized by the General Assembly could be accredited.” Although Taiwan is not a member state of the World Health Organization, it had nonetheless been invited as an observer to attend the annual World Health Assembly<\/a> for eight years after 2009. Taiwanese media groups were able to attend and report at the summit with press accreditation issued by the World Health Organization but were blocked from attending starting in 2017<\/a>. [Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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