Could Haiti's woes offer Beijing an opportunity to win over another Taiwan ally? | South China Morning Post

The latest natural disasters to strike Haiti, coupled with the political turmoil that followed the assassination of the country's president , have raised concerns in Taiwan and the US that the island, one of Taipei's last diplomatic allies, may switch recognition to Beijing. Pro-Taiwan President Jovenel Moise was murdered by a hit squad on July 7, creating a power vacuum as a result of the death from Covid-19 of his constitutionally designated successor, Chief Justice René Sylvestre, the previous month. The country had already faced growing political unrest prompted, in part, by the pandemic that has killed 570 people and…