Last month, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed the Taiwan Allies International Protection and Enhancement Initiative (TAIPEI) Act. Third, Taiwan’s unofficial relations are far more important to Taiwan than its official ones. We call the countries that recognize Taiwan its “allies,” but they are far from that. As for the most important of Taiwan’s remaining diplomatic allies, the Vatican, it doesn’t need any of the assistance the US or Taiwan can offer. Probably the most significant loss that will come with loss of Taiwan’s diplomatic allies will be its loss of a pretext for Presidential visits to the US.

Source: Taipei Times October 13, 2019 15:56 UTC