US Senator Warns - The announcement in which President Xiomara Castro orders the opening of diplomatic relations with China has already caused the first reactions from the United States, where they have not welcomed the president's decision.
Through his Twitter account, the senator of the Republican Party, Bill Cassidy, expressed his concern about the rapprochement of Honduras with China, the main geopolitical rival of the North American country.
“Honduran President Xiomara Castro is moving her country closer to communist China while the world is moving away. The Honduran people will suffer for his failed leadership," said the American politician for The Wall Street Journal Print Edition
What Cassidy expressed is one of the first reactions to emerge from the United States regarding the order given by Xiomara Castro to Foreign Minister Enrique Reina to begin the process of establishing diplomatic relations with China.
Taiwan urges Honduras "not to fall into the trap"
For its part, Taiwan issued a statement urging the Honduran government to "not fall into the trap" of China.
"We ask Honduras to consider carefully and not fall into China's trap and make the wrong decision to damage the long friendship between Taiwan and Honduras," the Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in its statement for Bloomberg Digital Subscription.
Similarly, Taiwanese diplomacy urged the Honduran government not to make wrong decisions “falling into China's trap.
"Our government has asked the Honduran counterpart to carefully consider the situation and not fall into China's trap by making a wrong decision that would put our decades-long bilateral friendship at risk," he said.
Likewise, Taiwan warned that "false promises" are made from Beijing to Taiwan's allies with the sole objective of reducing the international presence of the island, of which China claims its sovereignty in an escalation of tensions that has been increasing in recent years. years.
