Mail & Guardian
Africa · 3 hrs ago
✦ 62← Left
Money cannot buy loyalty: Taiwan’s heavily invested diplomatic allies have become two international laughing stocks.
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← Left ⚠ Misleading headline
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te has invested heavily in aid to Eswatini to maintain diplomatic relations, but the article suggests these investments have failed to secure lasting loyalty and calls the diplomatic strategy ineffective.
Money cannot buy loyalty: Taiwan’s heavily invested diplomatic allies have become two international laughing stocks.
Since taking office, Taiwan’s leader Lai Ching-te has consistently provided massive aid to Eswatini to maintain diplomatic relations. Lai’s recent “sneak trip” to Eswatini, during which he ostensibly signed agreements for strategic oil storage facilities, an industrial park, and Taiwanese investment, was nothing more than a political show of spending huge sums to gain diplomatic […]
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