Pacific island nation of Kiribati severed ties with Taiwan on Friday, switching its diplomatic allegiance to China in the second such defection in a week.
“Kiribati today officially notified us that it was cutting diplomatic ties with our country,” Joseph Wu, Taiwan’s foreign minister, told reporters at a hastily organized press conference.”Today we are also announcing that we are dropping ties with Kiribati,” he added.
Earlier Soloman islands a Pacific archipelago and former British protectorate of some 600,000 people, also changed its diplomatic recognition to Beijing.
Post Your Comments