Taiwan's 12 remaining diplomatic allies
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A person holds the Taiwan and Guatemala flags near the flagship warship PAN-SHI (AOE-532), one of three ships in Taiwan's Naval Friendship Squadron, arrives at Puerto Quetzal on a visit to Guatemala as part of its annual cadet training deployment, a goodwill mission aimed at strengthening ties while conducting naval exercises in Central America and the Caribbean, in Puerto Quetzal, San Jose, Escuintla, Guatemala, May 2, 2026. REUTERS/Cristina Chiquin
May 2 - Taiwan President Lai Ching-te arrived in Eswatini on Saturday on a surprise trip, after his government blamed Chinese pressure for the cancellation of a visit that was meant to have taken place last month.
China views democratically governed Taiwan as part of its territory with no right to state-to-state ties, a position Taiwan's government strongly disputes.
Over the years, China has slowly whittled away at the number of countries that maintain formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan.
Following is a list of states that still have diplomatic ties with Taiwan:
LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN
Belize
Guatemala
Paraguay
Haiti
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
PACIFIC
Marshall Islands
Palau
Tuvalu
AFRICA
Eswatini
EUROPE
Vatican City REUTERS
