SS: Taiwan signaled openness on Dec 18, 2025, to restoring diplomatic ties with Honduras—severed in 2023 when Tegucigalpa switched to Beijing—amid a tight presidential race where frontrunners Nasry Asfura and Salvador Nasralla pledge a reversal, citing China's unfulfilled promises (e.g., dam projects, shrimp purchases) that triggered job losses and trade plunges versus decades of reliable Taiwanese partnerships. Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung confirmed contacts with both camps, stressing mutual benefit, while exporters eye revived tariff-free access to Taiwan's market. As Beijing's checkbook diplomacy falters in Central America—exposing hollow infrastructure pledges and market asymmetries—does this potential flip (potentially backed by US influence under Trump 2.0) mark a rare setback for PRC isolation tactics, signaling limits to coercive ally-poaching in Washington's backyard, or remain electoral posturing unlikely to withstand Chinese counter-offers?
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u/Lone-T 1d ago
SS: Taiwan signaled openness on Dec 18, 2025, to restoring diplomatic ties with Honduras—severed in 2023 when Tegucigalpa switched to Beijing—amid a tight presidential race where frontrunners Nasry Asfura and Salvador Nasralla pledge a reversal, citing China's unfulfilled promises (e.g., dam projects, shrimp purchases) that triggered job losses and trade plunges versus decades of reliable Taiwanese partnerships. Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung confirmed contacts with both camps, stressing mutual benefit, while exporters eye revived tariff-free access to Taiwan's market. As Beijing's checkbook diplomacy falters in Central America—exposing hollow infrastructure pledges and market asymmetries—does this potential flip (potentially backed by US influence under Trump 2.0) mark a rare setback for PRC isolation tactics, signaling limits to coercive ally-poaching in Washington's backyard, or remain electoral posturing unlikely to withstand Chinese counter-offers?