Taiwan's Foreign Minister, Lin Chia-lung, accused China of using financial inducements to persuade developing countries to abandon diplomatic relations with Taiwan. He argues that despite China's pressure, these tactics seem to be losing effectiveness. Lin emphasized the significance of a 1971 UN resolution that granted China the Security Council seat while ignoring Taiwan's representation. He claims China leverages construction projects to win over nations, and asserts the need for Taiwan to strengthen alliances with the United States and the EU to counter China's influence, especially given Taiwan's dwindling list of formal allies.
Lin said that key to that argument is a 1971 UN resolution that handed the China seat at the Security Council to Beijing, effectively kicking out Chiang Kai-shek's representatives who had held it even after fleeing to Taiwan when the Communists took over China in 1949.
China is using cheap construction of projects from stadiums to railway lines to win the countries over.
We must not let China have what it wants in terms of using legal warfare to make the Taiwan issue its domestic issue.
Dwindling diplomatic allies – Chinese economic pressure has reduced the number of Taiwan's formal diplomatic allies to just 12, mainly small island nations in the South Pacific and Caribbean.
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