aaur4man Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 Taiwan says China fails to pay up on US$8.6 billion in aid pledges to former allies TAIPEI: Taiwan's foreign minister said on Friday (Nov 22) that China had failed to deliver aid promises worth US$8.6 billion and instead "exported corruption" to nations that had switched allegiance to Beijing from Taipei, amid a tug-of-war for diplomatic recognition. China has in recent months stepped up a campaign to peel away more allies from self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing considers its territory and so ineligible for state-to-state relations, ahead of a January presidential election in Taiwan. Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said Beijing had made "false" aid promises totalling US$8.6 billion to several of Taiwan's former allies, for various projects from sea ports to highways. "To lure Taiwan's allies to build ties with them, China often makes promises with huge amounts of money. But we realise those promises were not fulfilled," Wu told reporters in Taipei. "We have been telling our allies that don't think you can hugely benefit from China just because of these false promises," he said, citing a long list of projects he said China had failed to deliver to Taiwan's former allies including the Dominican Republic, Sao Tome, Burkina Faso and El Salvador. In Beijing, China said this was a smear. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Beijing started "cooperation with many countries on the basis of a win-win" and they were "not only in China's interest but are in the other country's interests". "These real benefits are something the citizens of these other countries can truly feel. These types of cooperation cannot be effaced by anyone's attacks or smear attempts." Beijing has redoubled it efforts to "reunify" Taiwan, flying regular bomber patrols around it and seeking to isolate it diplomatically. That has presented a challenge to Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, who is seeking re-election and has seen seven countries drop Taiwan as an ally since she took office in 2016. Wu said China was exporting "corruption and authoritarianism" to those countries and "putting money directly into the pockets of corrupt politicians". "Either China has limited capacity to deliver those promises, or they were just unwilling to deliver those promises," Wu said. "This could be a cautionary tale for our allies." Taiwan now has only 15 diplomatic allies, many of them smaller, less developed nations in Central America and the Pacific like Belize and Nauru. Tuvalu, one of Taiwan's remaining allies in the Pacific, told Reuters this week the nation had rejected offers from Chinese companies to build artificial islands to help it cope with rising sea levels, giving some relief for Tsai. China believes Tsai wishes to push for Taiwan's formal independence, a red line for Beijing which has threatened to attack if this happens. Tsai has repeatedly said she wishes to maintain the status with China, but will defend Taiwan's democracy and security. Source 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socrates469bc Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 just go pinoyland and see. they kenna played out by the tiongs. tiongs pledged usd24bln in 2016, dont know how much has been committed so far. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-25/china-s-24-billion-promise-to-duterte-still-hasn-t-materialized and less than usd1bln in a usd9bln infrastructure package which is part of the pledge has been finalized. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-25/china-s-24-billion-promise-to-duterte-still-hasn-t-materialized or just cross the causeway and u can see rows of empty apartment blocks built by the tiong developers and their contractors. a well-versed construction contact of me told me the tiongs basically bring in their own workers, engineers, salesperson and even raw materials + equipment for their projects, thereby cutting out the local contractors and suppliers. so i really dont see how the tiongs can contribute to a local economy when the majority of the aid the tiongs pledged r recycled back to tiongland and there is no overall upgrade to the economic capabilities. when the japs/americans/taiwanese set up their production lines in siamland, the thais benefited from the upgrade to their overall manufacturing capacity. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_King Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 18 minutes ago, socrates469bc said: just go pinoyland and see. they kenna played out by the tiongs. tiongs pledged usd24bln in 2016, dont know how much has been committed so far. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-25/china-s-24-billion-promise-to-duterte-still-hasn-t-materialized and less than usd1bln in a usd9bln infrastructure package which is part of the pledge has been finalized. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-25/china-s-24-billion-promise-to-duterte-still-hasn-t-materialized or just cross the causeway and u can see rows of empty apartment blocks built by the tiong developers and their contractors. a well-versed construction contact of me told me the tiongs basically bring in their own workers, engineers, salesperson and even raw materials + equipment for their projects, thereby cutting out the local contractors and suppliers. so i really dont see how the tiongs can contribute to a local economy when the majority of the aid the tiongs pledged r recycled back to tiongland and there is no overall upgrade to the economic capabilities. when the japs/americans/taiwanese set up their production lines in siamland, the thais benefited from the upgrade to their overall manufacturing capacity. Since when in 5000yr of history China can be trusted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaur4man Posted November 23, 2019 Author Share Posted November 23, 2019 2 30 must be feeling the heat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socrates469bc Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 Just now, The_King said: Since when in 5000yr of history China can be trusted thats why i find it to be a joke whenever a tiong tells me that china never invade any country. chinese domination of vietnam, tang-silla war, invasions of joseon, chinese intervention of joseon or the tiong tributary system which is similar to the brits' gunboat diplomacy. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socrates469bc Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 7 minutes ago, aaur4man said: 2 30 must be feeling the heat the average working class slum pinoy, which forms the majority of the population, is too stupid to give 230 the heat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_King Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 1 hour ago, socrates469bc said: thats why i find it to be a joke whenever a tiong tells me that china never invade any country. chinese domination of vietnam, tang-silla war, invasions of joseon, chinese intervention of joseon or the tiong tributary system which is similar to the brits' gunboat diplomacy. There a saying. I work for money, if you want loyalty get a dog. Same to those who thought there someone that will help another one for NOTHING in return 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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