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In 2003, Nauru closed its newly established embassy in Beijing. Two years later, Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian met Nauruan President Ludwig Scotty in the Marshall Islands. In May 2005, Taiwan and Nauru re-established diplomatic relations, [4] [5] and opened embassies in each other's capitals. China consequently severed its relations with ...
Taiwan's government has accused China of offering large sums of money to Nauru. China's foreign ministry did not answer a question on that allegation on Monday, saying only that Nauru had made the ...
The government of the tiny Pacific Island nation of Nauru said that "in the best interests" of the country and its people it was seeking full resumption of diplomatic relations with China and ...
The Pacific Island nation of Nauru said Monday that it is switching diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China, a move that reduces the dwindling number of Taiwan's diplomatic allies to 12 around ...
Nauru has a high commission in Canberra and a consulate-general in Brisbane. People's Republic of China: 21 July 2002 – 27 May 2005 24 January 2024 (second) See China–Nauru relations. The Republic of Nauru and the People's Republic of China established diplomatic relations on 21 July 2002, [59] and resumed on 24 January 2024. [60] Cuba: 7 ...
On 21 July 2002, then President Rene Harris of Nauru signed a joint communiqué in Hong Kong to establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. [6] In the document, the Government of the Republic of Nauru recognised that "there is but one China in the world, that the Government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China ...
Palau, along with Tuvalu and the Marshall Islands, is one three Pacific nations to recognize Taiwan as an independent democracy — viewed as a snub by Beijing, which asserts it is part of China. Taipei’s allies in the Pacific have dwindled from six countries in 2019; Nauru abandoned its ties in January.
Nauruan warrior, 1880. Nauru was settled by Micronesians around 3,000 years ago, and there is evidence of possible Polynesian influence. [1] Nauruans subsisted on coconut and pandanus fruit, and engaged in aquaculture by catching juvenile ibija fish, acclimated them to freshwater conditions, and raised them in Buada Lagoon, providing an additional reliable source of food. [2]