{"id":7350,"date":"2021-12-19T15:58:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T15:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/notes-from-central-taiwan-as-allies-fall-taiwan-rises"},"modified":"2021-12-19T17:10:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T17:10:34","slug":"notes-from-central-taiwan-as-allies-fall-taiwan-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/notes-from-central-taiwan-as-allies-fall-taiwan-rises","title":{"rendered":"Notes from Central Taiwan: As allies fall, Taiwan rises"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Taiwan\u2019s rising standing in the world has rendered losses of \u2018 diplomatic allies\u2019 mootIn 2013 Gambia, then ruled by dictator Yahya Jammeh, broke off diplomatic relations with Taiwan. Badly in need of funds, it had declared itself an Islamic Republic in the hope of prying some cash out of Saudi Arabia and Iran, rivals for influence in the Islamic world. Apparently Jammeh thought he could get some money out of China if he dumped Taiwan.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for him, China waited until March of 2016 to establish relations with Gambia. With only a few months left in the two-term presidency of the pro-China Ma Ying-jeou (\u99ac\u82f1\u4e5d), for many in the media, Beijing could only have been signaling incoming \u2014 and pro-Taiwan \u2014 president Tsai Ing-wen (<\/p>\n

The deportations of Taiwanese scam suspects from Kenya to China occurred the following month, again widely interpreted in the media as a signal to Tsai. Indeed, the Economist observed, referring to the \u201cdrop\u201d in Chinese tourists, the Kenya deportations and the Gambia affair: \u201cSince January, China has turned to its usual battery of economic, diplomatic and strong-arm methods to bring Ms Tsai into line.The problem? The number of tourists was rising at the time, the pick up of Gambia was likely not a signal to Tsai but instead related to Beijing\u2019s policies in the Islamic world, while the Kenya deportations were arranged over a year before she was elected and were in response to decisions taken by the Ma administration.<\/p>\n

That media interpretation was a reminder of the once-pervasive media double standard on the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) \u2014 negative actions by Beijing are never negative signals to the KMT, only to the DPP. They also symbolized the international media\u2019s commitment to interpreting everything within the framework of the cross-strait sovereignty clash.<\/p>\n

My, how things have changed. Last week when Nicaragua switched from Taiwan to China, the media gave a gigantic shrug. Nobody blamed the Tsai administration. CNN even scribed: \u201cUnder Xi [Jinping, \u7fd2\u8fd1\u5e73], relations between Taipei and Beijing have deteriorated to levels not seen in decades,\u201d appearing to blame China for the current tensions. Yay!Reuters laid the problem at Washington\u2019s door. \u201cThe break with Taiwan is a blow to the United States. It follows months of worsening ties between Ortega and Washington\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

The sea change in the media\u2019s positioning of Taiwan and Tsai reflects the changing international environment for Taiwan as China continues to sink its reputation abroad and boot out media workers, sending some here to Taiwan to experience our warm welcomes firsthand. Thanks, Beijing, for creating more sympathetic, knowledgeable voices for Taiwan.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, as Gerrit van der Wees chronicled this week in the Diplomat (\u201cIs Taiwan\u2019s International Space Expanding or Contracting?\u201d, Dec. 14), in the last few months Japan has affirmed its support for Taiwan and its security, while Australian Defense Minister Peter Dutton signaled that Australia would help the US in a Taiwan scenario.<\/p>\n

Most importantly, Beijing\u2019s mishandling of its economic and political relations with Europe, symbolized by its bullying of Lithuania, has pushed Europe closer to Taiwan.<\/p>\n

Another key change took place at home. In 2019, when Taiwan lost two \u201cdiplomatic allies\u201d in a week, the KMT demanded that Tsai sack Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Wu<\/p>\n

This time, the KMT simply said on Twitter: \u201cKMT Chairman Eric Chu (\u6731\u7acb\u502b) condemns Nicaragua for severing ties w\/ the Republic of China & deeply regrets BJ\u2019s continuously sought to suppress our int\u2019l presence & seize our diplomatic relations.\u201d In other public statements, while making pro-forma attacks on Tsai, Chu accused Nicaragua of \u201cbad faith.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tsai\u2019s policy with the nation\u2019s \u201cdiplomatic allies\u201d has been as low-key as everything else about her. She has stated that the nation will not return to the \u201cdollar diplomacy\u201d of the Chen Shui-bian (\u9673\u6c34\u6241) years, when Taiwan\u2019s foreign aid resembled thinly disguised showers of bribes, but would instead continue the Ma administration\u2019s program of more carefully accounting for every aid dollar.<\/p>\n

In 2019 the People\u2019s Daily threatened that if Tsai were re-elected, sooner or later Taiwan would not have any diplomatic allies \u201cas long as the DPP is in power.\u201d Beijing frequently blusters, but Tsai was re-elected nearly two years ago and so far only Nicaragua has switched sides \u2014 and that for its own domestic reasons.<\/p>\n

Why isn\u2019t poaching Taiwan\u2019s allies more of a priority? Few of them are important to Taiwan economically. Moreover, losing them has little effect on Tsai\u2019s standing with the public while not helping Beijing\u2019s ally in Taiwan, the KMT.<\/p>\n

Two years ago Timothy Rich, associate professor of political science at Western Kentucky University, surveyed Taiwanese on their diplomatic relations. His research found that if asked whether diplomatic relations with the \u201callies\u201d were important, 58.7 percent answered in the affirmative. If it hurt relations with China, the number soared to 70 percent. If money had to be spent, it fell to just 41.6 percent. If it hurt relations with China but money had to be spent, it still rose from the 58 percent baseline to 61.6 percent.<\/p>\n

Clearly, the public likes \u201callies\u201d because they like poking betel-but stained fingers into China\u2019s eye, but they don\u2019t take them very seriously when they cost money. Similarly, a 2019 Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation poll found that 53 percent of the public does not worry about losing \u201callies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two other factors are likely in play. The first is that Taiwan\u2019s rising standing in the world has rendered losses of \u201callies\u201d moot. A decade or two ago the international media would speculate that a lost ally would trigger a cascade of switches to Beijing and play up Taiwan\u2019s \u201cisolation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today Taiwan\u2019s \u201cinformal\u201d relations are strong and still gathering steam. As Beijing\u2019s insensate, impotent reaction to the Zoom meeting the US called the Summit for Democracy showed, while Beijing can poach allies, it can do little to halt this momentum. Indeed, attempting to slow Taiwan\u2019s informal rise has generally fueled it even more.<\/p>\n

The other factor is that the \u201callies\u201d don\u2019t prop up Taiwan. Instead, they support the Republic of China (ROC) government, recognizing it as the sole government of China. Knocking them off formally isolates Taiwan in the world, providing greater impetus for the country to move toward formal independence.<\/p>\n

That is one reason that many advocates of independence argue that the loss of allies is a good thing in the long run: it accelerates the day the ROC, and its claims that overlap so dangerously with those of Beijing, disappear.<\/p>\n

Good riddance.Notes from Central Taiwan is a column written by long-term resident Michael Turton, who provides incisive commentary informed by three decades of living in and writing about his adoptive country. The views expressed here are his own.<\/p>\n

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