Georgetown, Dec 9 (Prensa Latina) Fifty years after the establishment of diplomatic relations between Guyana and Cuba, the strong ties of cooperation, friendship, solidarity, and mutual respect that unite the two nations are marked on Friday.
Why Guyana matters to Taiwan
By Marcin Jerzewski, Chen Kuan-ting 葉皓勤，陳冠廷
Rather than a “diplomatic win,” the recently announced opening of a Taiwan office in Guyana proved to be a source of disappointment and displeasure. The government in Georgetown decided to halt the mutual establishment of representative offices less than 24 hours after the agreement was announced.
Unsurprisingly, the “China factor” appears to have been the primary reason behind this reversal. The Guyanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs explicitly stated that the country would “continue to adhere to the one China policy” as it nixed the agreement with Taipei.
Why does Guyana matter, though? International attention on this Caribbean nation of less than 1 million people has long been sorely lacking. Additionally, given its history of rigged elections, corruption scandals and institutional weakness, Guyana has been unrighteously dismissed as an unimportant player in global politics.