BEIJING (Reuters) – Honduras opened an embassy in China on Sunday, Chinese language state media reported, after the Central American nation minimize diplomatic relations with Taiwan earlier this 12 months.
The embassy in Beijing was opened by international ministers from the 2 nations, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
Honduran President Xiomara Castro is in China for a state go to, throughout which she is to fulfill together with her Chinese language counterpart, Xi Jinping, state media have reported.
Tegucigalpa in March ended its decades-long relationship with Taipei and established diplomatic ties with Beijing.
China claims democratically dominated Taiwan as its personal territory with no proper to state-to-state relations, a place Taipei strongly rejects. China calls for that nations with which it has ties recognise its place.
Taiwan now has formal diplomatic relations with solely 13 nations, largely poor and creating nations in Central America, the Caribbean and the Pacific.
(Reporting by Ellen Zhang and Martin Quin Pollard; Enhancing by William Mallard)