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China using COVID vaccines to lure Paraguay away from Taiwan: MOFA 24-Mar-2021 Intellasia | TaiwanNews | 12:01 AM Chinese vaccine exporters are attempting to force Paraguay to break off relations with Taiwan in exchange for inoculations, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said Tuesday (March 23). Paraguay’s own foreign ministry has condemned Beijing’s demand that the Asuncion switch recognition as indefensible and damaging to the country’s sovereignty, according to Alexander Yui, the director-general of MOFA’s Department of Latin American and Caribbean Affairs. Paraguay is the only South American country among Taiwan’s 15 remaining official diplomatic allies. Thus, Taiwan is closely...
