Taiwan said that the country asked for billions of dollars to maintain ties, as Tegucigalpa announced a diplomatic shift to Xi Jinping's China on Sunday.
What happened to Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, said President Xiomara Castro who took office early last year and her government had always had illusions about Beijing and China's luring had never stopped.
The foreign ministry and embassy carefully handled the information and grasped it. The Castro government asked us for billions of dollars in huge economic assistance and compared prices for aid programs provided by Taiwan and China, according to Wu, according to Reuters.
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The former Taiwan ally Honduras cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan after the former long-time ally, Honduras. The government of the Republic of Honduras recognizes the existence of only one China in the world and that the government of the People's Republic of China is the only legitimate government representing all of China, Honduras said in a statement.
According to the media, Taiwan is an inalienable part of Chinese territory, according to Honduran foreign minister Eduardo Enrique Reina, who wrote to Taiwan this month asking for almost $2.5 billion in aid, including a loan of $2 billion to write off debt, as well as funds for the construction of a hospital and a dam. The publication added that the letter addressed Wu as a friend, who had seen a copy of the letter.
It felt like what they wanted was money, not a hospital, Wu said.
Honduras is the ninth ally that Taiwan has lost to China since the Tsai Ing Wen government took office.
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