How Taiwan lost Africa, and what the future holds for its last remaining alliance with Eswatini

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
How Taiwan lost Africa, and what the future holds for its last remaining alliance with Eswatini
Original language description
For more than two decades after the Chinese civil war in 1949, the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan enjoyed the status of sole representative of China to the detriment of Communist China. In the 1960s, after many African countries had gained independence and become members of the UN, they also established diplomatic ties with the ROC. The cooperation between Taiwan and African countries was mostly based on Taiwanese agricultural and technical aid. At the same time, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) began competing for recognition through infrastructure projects and ideological campaigns to support the independence of countries still under colonial rule. This led many countries to vote in its favour to enter the UN and replace the ROC as the representative of China. Since then, Taiwanese influence on the continent has gradually diminished. Nowadays, only one country in Africa has diplomatic ties with Taiwan – Eswatini (formerly Swaziland). They have been allies for almost half a century, although Eswatini is only Taiwan’s 156th largest trading partner. This article will provide a historical account of how Taiwan has gradually lost its African allies, but one. It will analyse how Taiwan managed to maintain this unlikely alliance.
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Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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