Sunday 16, March 2025 {HMC}The Chinese government has launched a very strong defense against the enhancing diplomatic relations between Somaliland and Taiwan and is threatening to exert pressure aimed at getting Hargeisa to cut diplomatic ties with Taipei.
In an interview with Somali broadcaster Dalsan TV, China’s Ambassador to Somalia, Wang Yu, reiterated that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China, and accused it of advocating the preference of a separation from Somalia by Somaliland. “Only one China in the world; Taiwan is an umbilically part of China. Many countries support the reunification of the country.
That is the fundamental truth,” Wang Yu asserted. The ambassador warned Somaliland not to forge ahead into deepening its cooperation with Taiwan, stating that China considers such undertakings as a direct challenge to its sovereignty. “Taiwan is cooperating with the political forces in Hargeisa, openly advocating for separatism. We condemn and warn against strengthening such ties.”
Wang Yu further underscored that China has made strenuous efforts to prevent Somaliland from being officially recognized as an independent state and that it is acting closely with the Somali regime in an attempt to uphold the territorial integrity of Somalia.
“China supports the Somali government in safeguarding the territorial integrity of their nation.” On its part, the Somaliland government, led by its President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi Irro, is bent on establishing closer ties with Taiwan, a rich but diplomatically isolated island that Beijing considers a breakaway province.
