Taiwan medd l ing – China draws a line in the sand

There are only 12 out of 193 UN member-states left that have diplomatic ties with China’s self-governing territory of Taiwan.

In the greater global affairs scheme of things, the 12 bear minuscule dynamism.

They are Belize, Guatemala, Haiti, Marshall Islands, Palau, Paraguay, St Lucia, St Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Tuvalo, and Eswatini.

Note that the US is evidently not among the dozen. Neither are all the major global economies or regional powerhouses across the international world architecture.

Here’s why: they all adhere to the sacrosanct “one-China principle”.

For far too long, Taiwan has been a headache for mainland China. In recent times, the headache has grown into a migraine as some in the self-governing territory have sought to connive