Somalia is welcome to try and subjugate Somaliland again - the 30 years of horror, it is undergoing now, will be nothing compared to when we open the gates of hell on them.
If you really think that is what keeping Somaliland together you are in for a surprise.
An african country can get this out of a relationship from Taiwan and China.
China = Debt-trap diplomacy.
Taiwan = development/win-win/learn a man to fish and he will feed himself.
If that was the case, why did it not happen when South Sudan seceded from Sudan? it even when against the African Union charter on borders.