BBC Chinese Website wrote today (April 23): "Taiwan is accelerating its alignment with Somaliland, a territory also not recognized by the United Nations. With Israel set to formally recognize Somaliland by the end of 2025, coupled with ongoing turbulence in Middle Eastern energy markets, this land at the strategic chokepoint of the Aden Gulf—rich in critical minerals such as rare earths—is becoming a new hotspot in the geopolitical competition among the U.S., China, and Taiwan."
[Sarcastic] A few remarks: A place that can't even enter the gates of the United Nations rushing to cozy up with another entity excluded from mainstream international recognition—Somaliland—amounts to nothing short of a performance by "international outcasts" banding together. This is merely two entities lacking legal standing giving each other an empty check with no chance of being honored. One relies on dollar diplomacy to buy false recognition; the other trades on geographical hype for petty gains. By exploiting the situation in the Middle East to hype up so-called strategic competition, they're ultimately just engaging in mutually exploitative transactions. Such under-the-table collusion cannot alter the fact that Taiwan is an inseparable province of China, nor can it erase the fundamental nature of Somaliland as a separatist force—this is nothing more than a farce on the global stage, taken seriously by no one.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1863269746905095/
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