Taiwan said Thursday, December 30, that Nicaragua had “graspedHis embassy, planning to transfer it to China, and threatened his former ally with legal action, three weeks after the latter broke with Taipei to recognize Beijing.
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“Taiwan will initiate appropriate international legal procedures to protect its diplomatic property and ensure that Nicaragua is held responsible for its internationally wrongful act“Said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement. For him, this seizure “is part of China’s explicit and aggressive intention to annex Taiwan, which seriously violates international rules and undermines regional peace and stability“.
Eighth defection in favor of Beijing since 2016
Managua announced on December 10 the severance of its diplomatic relations with Taiwan, to recognize only one “only China»Led by Beijing, reducing to 14 the number of allied countries of the democratic island, whose government has been separate from that of the mainland since 1949. Nicaragua became the eighth country to turn away from Taipei in favor of Beijing since the Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen took office in 2016.
China sees Taiwan as one of its provinces and has stepped up pressure to isolate the island internationally. It has never ruled out the hypothesis of a use of force to establish its sovereignty over Taiwan and in recent months has increased air incursions into the island’s defense identification zone: more than 940 Chinese military planes recorded in 2021, against 380 incursions in 2020, according to Taiwanese data.