He Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked Honduras not “make the wrong decision” to open official relations with the Chinese regime, after the president of the Central American country, Xiomara Castro, gave this instruction to her foreign minister.
“We ask Honduras to consider carefully and not fall into the trap of China and making the wrong decision to damage the long friendship between Taiwan and HondurasTaiwan’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
“I have instructed Foreign Minister Eduardo (Enrique) Reina to manage the opening of official relations with the People’s Republic of China”, pointed out the preisdneta of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, in a message on Twitter.
He added that his country will open relations with China “as sample of my determination to comply with the Government Plan and expand the borders with freedom in the concert of the nations of the world”.
Before her inauguration as president of Honduras, on January 27, 2022, Castro had said that it was not on his agenda to open relations with China.
The Honduran Foreign Minister and the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of China, xie fengmet on January 1 in Brasilia as part of the inauguration of the Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Two weeks later, the Taiwanese Foreign Ministry expressed “grave concern” over the meeting between Reina and Feng, warning that Beijing offers “false promises”, with the aim of “reducing the international presence” of Taiwan.
On February 2, Reina had announced negotiations with China, but to build a Hydroelectric plant.
“What we are looking for, in this vision of creating more energy capacities for the country, is for China to finance Patuca II”, Reina had said then, denying the versions that her country was going to establish relations with the Chinese regime.
Honduras is one of the 14 countries with which Taiwan maintains diplomatic relations, which include Guatemala, Vatican City, Haiti, Paraguay, Eswatini, Tuvalu, Nauru, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Belize, Marshall Islands and Palau.
The Honduran Analyst Raul Pinedahe told the news agency AFP that Castro’s tweet “does not clarify what kind of relations” they would be and that if “they are diplomatic, that will generate a break with taiwan and a distancing with the United States”.
“Right now China-US relations are very tense. From that point of view it would be a very unfortunate decision” by the Castro government, he added.
Ties between Tegucigalpa and Taipei date back to 1941, when the ROC government – Taiwan’s official name – was still headquartered on the Chinese mainland.
Four Latin American countries –Panama, El Salvador, Dominican Republic and Nicaragua– broke relations with Taiwan in recent years in favor of the Xi Jinping regime.
Taiwan has been considered a sovereign territory with its own government and political system under the name of the Republic of China since the end of the civil war between nationalists and communists in 1949, but Beijing says it is a rebellious province and insists that it return to what it called common homeland.
(With information from AFP and EFE)
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