Tag: Taiwan

• Friday, April 1st 2022 - 09:35 UTC

  Paraguay, Taiwan sign new agreements to bolster mutual cooperation

  

  Paraguay and Taiwan Wednesday signed in Taipei two memorandums on the prevention of African swine fever and the promotion of investment and exports, in addition to a letter of intent on industrial policy cooperation, it was announced.
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• Monday, February 14th 2022 - 21:00 UTC

  Paraguay greenlights use of Taiwanese COVID-19 vaccine

  

  Paraguayan health authorities Monday issued an emergency clearance for the use of the Taiwanese-developed Medigen COVID-19 vaccine, it was announced.

• Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:38 UTC

  Beijing and Taiwan jockeying for influence in Honduras

  

  Next January 27, the president-elect of Honduras in Central America, a country known to live off the drugs trade and international aid will be taking office. Xiomara Castro, the first woman president of the country, and an icon of the left-wing progressive parties of Latin America promised during her campaign that her administration would cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan and establish full relations with Beijing, as recently happened in neighboring Nicaragua.

• Wednesday, January 12th 2022 - 09:23 UTC

  Taiwan grants Paraguay zero tariffs to import 11 products

  

  The Taiwanese Embassy in Asunción has conveyed to the Paraguayan Government tariffs had been cut down to zero for the purchase of 11 Paraguayan products under the Economic Cooperation Agreement already in force between the two countries.

• Friday, December 31st 2021 - 09:39 UTC

  Nicaragua hands over Taiwanese Embassy to Chinese authorities

  

  Nicaragua's Government has seized former Taiwan's Embassy in Managua and handed it over to China, which maintains the Asian island is nothing but a rogue province.

• Friday, December 10th 2021 - 09:01 UTC

  Nicaragua severs ties with Taiwan, “rogue Chinese territory”

  

  The Nicaraguan Government of President Daniel Ortega Thursday announced it was cutting all diplomatic ties with Taiwan, citing “that in the world there is only one single China” whose legitimate government is that of the People's Republic.

• Friday, November 12th 2021 - 09:08 UTC

  Xi, Biden to hold virtual Summit next Monday

  

  The Presidents of China, Xi Jinping, and of the United States, Joseph Biden, are to hold a virtual Summit this coming Monday to discuss bilateral issues, particularly the case of Taiwan, an independent country still considered a rogue province by the Asian giant.

• Wednesday, March 31st 2021 - 06:51 UTC

  Paraguay: Foreign Minister cries for US, Taiwan help with Covid-19 vaccines

  

  Paraguay's Foreign Minister Euclides Acevedo Tuesday cried out to the world, particularly Taiwan and the United States, for anti-covid-19 vaccines to curb the spread of the disease which has killed over 4,000 people so far.

• Monday, February 8th 2021 - 09:49 UTC

  Under pressure from Beijing, Guyana cancels contacts with Taiwan for a trade office

  

  Guyana has retreated from an agreement with Taiwan for the island to establish an investment office in the former British colony in South America. Beijing described Guyana's decision as “a mistake that must be corrected”, and it was.

• Friday, January 29th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  Beijing warns Taiwan, “any mention of independence means war”

  

  Beijing warned Taiwan on Thursday that “independence means war” and that its armed forces stepped up activities were in response to provocation and foreign interference.