Paraguay expelled from * Chinese The ambassador allegedly interfered in domestic affairs and urged the South American nation to break ties. Taiwan.
Earlier on Thursday, Paraguay’s foreign ministry said it had revoked the visa of Xu Wei, the senior Chinese ambassador to Latin America, who was in Paraguay for the year. Unesco meeting him declaring that he was an unwelcome person “in internal baggage.” The Chinese ambassador was given 24 hours to leave the village.
The day before, Xu skipped the Unesco session and attended a meeting in the city of Asunción, where he made a diplomatic move by invoking. Paraguay to the moat of Taiwan, a self-governing democratic island of 23 million people, which it claims as Chinese territory.
Paraguay is the only nation in South America and one of only 12 in the world that recognizes Taiwan as a country. Paraguayan government He remained committed — as Beijing ramps up its lobbying efforts to stop its foreign counterparts from recognizing the island.
In four years in Latin America – Honduras, Panamathe Dominican Republic and salvation – You cut ties with Taiwan in favor of Beijing, whose one-China forces lead countries to choose between having full diplomatic relations with China or Taiwan.
From the meeting rooms of the futuristic building in Asunción that Taiwan helped the institute, Xu confirmed Beijing’s interest in establishing relations with Paraguay, but said the burden of officials in Paraguay to move first.
“It’s either” China or Taiwan,” he said. “I recommend that the Paraguayan government feel right as soon as possible.”
Speaking to lawmakers, Xu highlighted Beijing’s hope for expanded trade among “thousands of other benefits.” Some of the Paraguayan assembly, while bringing up the struggles of farmers to export soybeans and beef to China, argued that the nation stands to benefit from a diplomatic flip in the long run.
China’s trade with South America has grown exponentially in recent years, reaching nearly $500bn as of 2023, according to data from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.
On Wednesday, the Taiwanese embassy in Paraguay slammed China’s X social media platform, calling Xu an “infiltrator” who is trying to “undermine the strong friendship between Paraguay and Taiwan” that goes back to 1957.