Taiwan has given a fresh diplomatic blow to China in the strategically located Horn of Africa. Taiwan has officially opened a Representative Office in Somaliland, a fully-functioning East African State that declared independence from a wartorn Somalia in 1991. Today, Somaliland is not recognised globally just like Taiwan.
Taiwan gives China a high voltage diplomatic jolt by establishing relations with Somaliland
Within Africa, enhanced ties between Somaliland and Taiwan could, therefore, turn out to be a yet another diplomatic catastrophe for China
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