Taiwan leader begins visit to remaining ally Eswatini | Huizhong Wu / The Associated Press

TAIPEI, Taiwan—Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen on Tuesday began a four-day trip to Eswatini, one of the island’s 13 remaining allies.

Tsai, who is serving her last year as president, is visiting the country of 1.1 million people in southern Africa to “celebrate the friendship between the two countries,” she said, as she departed Taiwan. Since Tsai took office in 2016, China has started putting pressure on countries that have a diplomatic relationship with Taiwan to switch their formal recognition from Taiwan to China. Beijing has successfully poached 9 countries, leaving Taiwan with just 13 countries that acknowledge its statehood.Taiwan is a self-ruled island claimed by China. The two sides have been at odds since 1949 when the Communist Party won in the civil war against the Nationalists.

China today demands its allies agree to its One China principle, which claims that Taiwan is a part of the People’s Republic of China.“Diplomacy is the accumulation of step by step. Taiwan’s steps onto the globe not only will not stop,” she said. “We will continue forward more resolutely, with self confidence, to let the world see Taiwan’s steady and good power.”Eswatini is an absolute monarchy, and most of the country’s population live below the poverty line.

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