26 Mar 2023 (approximate)

“The foreign ministry and embassy grasped the relevant information and handled it carefully. However, the Castro government also asked us for billions of dollars in huge economic assistance and compared prices for assistance programmes provided by Taiwan and China. The Honduran foreign minister wrote to Taiwan on March 13, the day before Castro's original announcement, demanding a total of $2.45bn in aid, including the construction of a hospital and a dam and debt forgiveness. It felt like what they wanted was money, not a hospital.”

www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/26/hondu...
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Joseph Wu

   Politician

Taiwan’s foreign minister

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Honduras and Taiwan severed official ties, with the Central American state switching to Beijing

Taiwan - Honduras relations