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Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Taiwan has lost another diplomatic ally to China just days after its presidential election in what Taipei said was both sudden and designed by Beijing to suppress the island\u2019s \u201cdemocratic achievements.\u201d<\/p>\n The Pacific Island nation of Nauru on Monday announced it had severed diplomatic relations with Taiwan and established ties with China, a decision confirmed by Taiwan\u2019s Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n The move is the latest blow to Taiwan\u2019s efforts to retain its dwindling number of diplomatic allies and comes just two days after Taiwan\u2019s voters defied China\u2019s threats to elect a new president loathed by Beijing.<\/p>\n Lai Ching-te, the current vice president and a staunch defender of Taiwan\u2019s distinct identity and sovereignty, won the presidential election on Saturday, handing the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) a historic third straight term.<\/p>\n Beijing had repeatedly warned Taiwan\u2019s voters that his election would increase the risk of conflict.<\/p>\n China\u2019s ruling Communist Party views Taiwan as its own territory, despite having never controlled it, and has ramped up diplomatic pressure on Taipei in recent years, including by poaching its allies.<\/p>\n During the DPP\u2019s eight years in power, Taiwan has lost 10 diplomatic allies to China.<\/p>\n On Monday, Taiwan\u2019s Foreign Ministry condemned China in \u201cthe strongest possible terms\u201d for Nauru\u2019s diplomatic switch, which it said came at \u201ca key moment\u201d following the presidential election.<\/p>\n \u201cChina\u2019s move is to suppress Taiwan\u2019s democratic achievements,\u201d Taiwan\u2019s Deputy Foreign Minister Tien Chung-kwang said.<\/p>\n Tien added that the severance of ties was a \u201cvery sudden move\u201d by the Nauru government, which had congratulated Lai\u2019s presidential victory over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed\u00a0 Taiwan has lost another diplomatic ally to China just days after its presidential election in what Taipei said was both sudden and designed by Beijing to suppress the island\u2019s \u201cdemocratic achievements.\u201d The Pacific Island nation of Nauru on Monday announced it had severed diplomatic relations with Taiwan and established …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11471,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11468\/revisions\/11471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}