Honduras established diplomatic ties with China on Sunday after breaking off relations with Taiwan, which is increasingly isolated and now recognized by only 13 sovereign states.
Foreign ministers from China and Honduras signed a joint communique in Beijing — a decision the Chinese Foreign Ministry hailed as “the right choice.”
The diplomatic victory for China comes as tensions rise between Beijing and the United States, including over China’s increasing assertiveness toward self-ruled Taiwan, and signals growing Chinese influence in Latin America. The new China-Honduras relationship was announced after the Honduran and Taiwanese governments made separate announcements that they were severing ties.
China and Taiwan have been locked in a battle for diplomatic recognition since they split amid civil war in 1949, with Beijing spending billions to win recognition for its “one China” policy.
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China is managing the Panama Canal... should we go to war the canal would be critical and all of Central America is likely to be drawn into the conflict. Nicaragua and Guatemala were already in the socialist camp and now Honduras goes hard left, leaving Costa Rica and Balez as the only friendly states in Latin America. What happened to the Monroe Doctrine?
China needs to be close to the USA, next they'll put nuclear weapons there to keep us in line!