The threat to Taiwan is a tricky one for SA. During the apartheid era, we had close relations with the island state, but when the ANC came to power, it switched our allegiance to China.

Taiwan has been self-governing since 1949 and is a democracy, but the mainland Chinese state claims jurisdiction over the territory and may use force to seize it. ..

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