Paraguay Bucks a Latin American Trend, Pledging Fresh Support for Taipei as Its Neighbors Cozy Up to Communist China
While Western support for Taipei is dwindling, Santiago Peña vows to champion ‘democracy, free speech, free rights.’
The last Latin American leader to hold out against Communist China’s growing influence over the Western hemisphere is pushing for stronger bilateral ties with Free China to bolster the economy at home and defend democracy abroad.
The president of Paraguay, Santiago Peña, is clinging to the nation’s long-standing recognition of Taipei’s sovereignty even as neighboring nations have taken the side of Communist China, which has invested billions of dollars in the region in recent years.
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