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  • 02 May 2018
  • 5 min

Explainer 113: Is Taiwan running out of friends?

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  • The Foreign Desk
  • 5 min

When the Dominican Republic announced this week that it was establishing diplomatic ties with China, Taiwan lost yet another ally. However, most countries made the switch in 1971, so what has taken the Dominican Republic so long and, as Andrew Mueller explains, what’s in it for those that still side…

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  • Andrew Mueller

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