other countries in this area and now it seems beijing is doing the same all out soccer thanks very much for coming in and breaking that down on the maps for us. on the other side of the story is of course that all of this has come of the cost of taiwan and its ties with other countries the united nations recognizes only beijing as the government of china and not taiwan this means only a handful of countries have diplomatic ties with taiwan at the moment that list is incredibly short only 15 countries including vatican city recognise taiwan as a country since 2016 taiwan has lost 5 allies to try another most recent ones being you saw them there the pacific nations of kenya and the solomon islands. here is what the prime minister of the solomon islands said on his 1st state visit to china after his country established diplomatic relations with it. my government