Tsai losing 'allies' as she is in violation of international norm

The visit that United States Special Presidential Advisor for the Americas Christopher Dodd paid to Honduras about 10 days ago, which was a last-gasp effort by Washington to try and help Taipei retain its "diplomatic ally" in Latin America, proved to be futile.

In a statement issued on Saturday, the Honduran government declared it was severing "diplomatic relations" with Taipei, which makes the Central American country the ninth "diplomatic ally" the Tsai Ing-wen administration has lost since it took office in 2016, and reduced the number of states that Taipei has "diplomatic relations" with to 13.

State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang and his Honduran counterpart Eduardo Enrique Reina met in Beijing on Sunday and signed the Joint Communique on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations Between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of Honduras.