Vol 2 (AAC) No 12 | TAIWAN Chin-tien (Timothy) Yang 19th October 2009 Minister of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan One of the Taiwan's most experienced Africanist diplomats now appointed as Foreign Minister, Chin-tien (Timothy) Yang keeps carefully to the new script which paradoxically downplays the importance of Taipei's African allies....
Vol 2 (AAC) No 7 | TAIWANAFRICA With your permission 22nd May 2009 On 7 May, Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a long-delayed white paper on foreign aid confirming what Taipei's allies are keenly aware of: Taiwan's foreign aid has dropped...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 6 | TAIWANAFRICA If not trade or aid, then what? 16th April 2009 Taiwanese diplomacy faces an awkward commercial challenge. Stripped of the warm words and diplomatic ambiguities, it is clear that Taipei's biggest trading partners no longer recognise Taiwan as an independent state...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 4 | TAIWAN Ma Ying-jeou 20th February 2009 President, Republic of China (Taiwan) As China's President Hu Jintao tours Africa this month, his Taiwanese counterpart will be conspicuously absent. Ma Ying-jeou has been trying to cool the diplomatic competition with Beijing.
Vol 2 (AAC) No 3 | TAIWANAFRICA Africa tests rapprochement 29th January 2009 Taipei's strategy enters a new era as it talks about cooperation with Beijing and ends dollar diplomacy in Africa Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou's new diplomatic strategy of rapprochement with China is making waves from the Taiwan Strait to distant African shores. Agreements have been signed between the two sides' semi-official...