All the Pacific Island nations invited to the foreign ministerial conference had already embraced Beijing s "One China Policy." Some of these states once had diplomatic links with Taiwan but were wooed away by Beijing s offer of financial loans,
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is accelerating its campaign to isolate Taiwan from the existing international order by offering bribes in some of these poor islands to leadership figures to break with Taipei. Presently, only 15 nations have formal