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Taiwan’s right to self-determination

Carlos Jose Fleitas Rodriguez

A few days ago, Paraguayan President Santiago Pena in statements through a French press agency said that Paraguay recognizes Taiwan’s right to self-determination as a nation, and that the relationship between Paraguay and Taiwan has lasted for 67 years and there are no plans to change it.

This forceful affirmation by the Guarani chief executive clearly indicates the firmness of relations between the two states and that they have solid links, which make it last over time. The right to self-determination is the right of people to decide their own forms of government, and pursue economic, social and cultural development, as well as to structure their countries freely, without external interference and in accordance with the principle of equity.

Canadian warship passes through the Taiwan Strait

Taipei Times

A Canadian warship passed through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday as part of what Ottawa called a commitment to an open Indo-Pacific region.

The Canadian Ministry of National Defense said the HMCS Montreal frigate had “recently conducted a routine transit” through the Strait.

The transit was a reaffirmation of Canada’s commitment to a “free, open and inclusive” Indo-Pacific region, Canadian Minister of National Defence Bill Blair said.

Wind down nation’s honor guards

Teng Hon-yuan 鄧鴻源

On July 15, the military honor guards’ “handover ceremony” at the Chiang Kai-shek (CKS) Memorial Hall (中正紀念堂) was performed outdoors for the first time on Democracy Boulevard outside the main hall — rather than in front of former president Chiang Kai-shek’s (蔣介石) statue inside the main hall.

The 15-minute ceremony is performed once every hour on the hour from 9am to 5pm on the boulevard.

However, the relocation has caused much criticism, with some people saying the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government’s move is “interfering with the military honor guards.”

China pressures lawmakers over IPAC

Taipei Times

Chinese diplomats are pressuring lawmakers from at least six countries not to attend a China-focused summit in Taiwan, participants said.

Politicians in Bolivia, Colombia, Slovakia, North Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and one other Asian country that declined to be named, say they are receiving texts, calls and urgent requests for meetings that would conflict with their plans to travel to Taipei, in what they describe as efforts to isolate Taiwan.

The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) summit officially begins tomorrow. The alliance is a group of hundreds of lawmakers from 35 countries concerned about how democracies approach Beijing.

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