China gifts Nicaragua a million COVID vaccines for cutting ties with Taiwan

China has gifted Nicaragua a million COVID-19 vaccines just days after the latter cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan.

Chinese government officials landed in Nicaragua with the first batch of the doses on Sunday. They thanked Nicaragua for restoring relations with Beijing.

Taiwan, a major trade partner of Nicaragua, was unhappy with its decision and said the country has “disregarded many years of friendship.”

Nicaragua publicly announced that Taiwan was a part of China. It irked the Taiwanese people who see themselves as independent of hegemonic Beijing-controlled China.

Taiwan’s President reiterated that no amount of foreign pressure would shake their commitment towards freedom.

China has long used its economic pressure and “investments” to coerce nations into disregarding Taiwan’s recognition. It’s major “investments” or debt-traps have left African, some Eastern European, and South Asian nations with no other choice but to do as China says.

China’s huge “investments” into smaller economies hijacks the entire political and military landscape of the country. Even monuments, roads, etc., are soon named in Mandarin instead of the nation’s own language.

Its quick production of cheap knockoffs leaves local manufacturers with no other choice but to work under the Chinese companies and their Chinese “manager.”

With no local industries left, local governments have no other choice but to let China run everything and soon fall in the never-ending loop that has always remained China’s ultimate goal.