TAIPEI: Taiwan will help its handful of remaining diplomatic allies buy COVID-19 vaccines but on the condition that Taiwanese money is not used to obtain Chinese vaccines, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said on Wednesday .
Taiwan has formal ties with only 15 countries, mostly poor and developing states in Latin America, the Caribbean and the Pacific, and Beijing has stepped up efforts to coax them away from Taipei.Taiwan said last week it was helping its sole diplomatic ally in South America, Paraguay, buy COVID-19 vaccines, after protests in the country over the Paraguayan government's handling of the health crisis."But one of the conditions is that Chinese vaccines cannot be bought.
"The Paraguayan government knows that there is China's shadow, Chinese funds and Chinese channels behind the turmoil there, and they abhor China," he said.Beijing views Taiwan's democratically elected government as illegitimate, and considers the island merely a Chinese province with no right to state-to-state ties.
Of course Taiwan wont buy from China , so stupid to even have Press Conference for this , by the way , last heard Taiwan cannot get from Pfizer BioNtech
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