(Taipei / Sydney Comprehensive News) After the Pacific Island Gualu broke her diplomatic relations with Taiwan, the remaining three diplomatic relations between Taiwan in the Pacific Marshall Islands, Palau, and Tuwaru all expressed their support for Taiwan.
The Marshall Islands' Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Department on Thursday (January 18), on Facebook, described that the country's friendship with Taiwan is as firm as a rock and "cherishes the solid relationship with the Republic of China (Taiwan)."
The Prime Minister of Tuvaru Natano sent a letter to Taiwan's representative office in Tuvalu to reiterate that Towaru was a firm friend in Taiwan and will continue to support Taiwan's democratic development.
President Palau's office on Tuesday (January 16) also posted on Facebook that Taiwan has always been a friend of many small island countries including Palau.According to posts, countries can freely choose to establish diplomatic relations with any country without coercion.
The Marshall Islands and Palau signed long -term defense and funding agreements with the United States; Tuvalu signed a security and immigration agreement with Australia in November last year.
After the Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party Chairman Lai Qingde won the presidential election last Saturday (January 13), Nauru announced that he had broken diplomatic relations with Taiwan and established diplomatic relations with mainland China in less than two days.
With the turn of Nauru, the number of diplomatic relations between Taiwan in the Pacific since 2019 has decreased from six to three, and there is also the background of the geopolitical game between China and the United States.
Financial Times reported on Thursday that several American members will visit Taiwan in the next few weeks to express their support for Lai Qingde, and three of them will visit Taiwan next week.This week, a cross -party delegation composed of former US senior officials visited Taiwan the next day in the Taiwan election.
According to the announcement of the Ministry of National Defense of Taiwan, from 6 am on Wednesday (January 17) to 6 am on Thursday, the Taiwan military has discovered 24 Chinese military aircraft and five warships, which continues to move around the Taiwan Strait.
This is the first large -scale military activity of the PLA in the Taiwan Strait since the end of the Taiwan election.