Taiwan to help allies buy vaccines, but not from China

FILE PHOTO: Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu speaks at a news conference in Taipei, Taiwan, September 3, 2020. REUTERS/Ann Wang

Chinese-claimed 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. Or, if you buy Chinese vaccines, then you cannot use our Taiwanese money,” he added.

While Taiwan has provided masks and other equipment to other countries to control the pandemic, it only began its vaccine programme this week, with domestically developed shots not likely to roll out until the middle of the year at the earliest.On Monday, Paraguay’s Foreign Ministry said the government had been approached by people “whose legitimacy or links with the government of the People’s Republic of China has not been proven” about vaccines.

It said these unnamed people had suggested the precondition for getting the vaccines would be to ditch Taiwan, and denounced the “distressing humanitarian scenario” that anyone should try and use the pandemic for political or economic gains.“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.

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