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November 12, 2004

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What the hell is gonig on with Vanuatu? For the past couple of weeks it has been struggling to decide whether the recongnise Taiwan or China. At the start of the week they were in the Taiwan camp. Now China seems to think they've won, but Taiwan's not so sure. Even the NYT is on the case.

Just to remind you of the stakes here, Vanuatu is a small group of islands in the South Pacific, population around 200,000, of whom 15% follow the Jon Frum Cargo Cult. It's this kind of high quality diplomatic tussling that keeps so many civil servants employed in Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

 posted by Simon on 11.12.04 at 12:37 PM in the




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