Beijing is in a position to deepen its full cooperative association with the Caribbean nations, said Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) in Beijing with Grenadan Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell, whose country was a best diplomatic friend in Taiwan.
China is willing to keep up assistance to regional nations to aid their economic and social development, Xinhua news agency cited Xi as saying.
Granada has greatly benefited from ties with China and seeks to strengthen cooperation with the Asian giant, Mitchell said at the meeting.
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“The two games -Aray . . . draw a new plan for long -term progression and the upper point of bilateral relations,” XI said, added that bidirectional links have effectively evolved for more than two decades.
Mitchell said Grenada firmly adheres to the “China Principle” and called for the protection of its sovereignty and territorial integrity, Xinhua added.
Mitchell, the first foreign leader, XI met this year in Beijing this year, at an official one -week stop in China since Saturday.
The Caribbean and Latin America have the largest concentration of diplomatic allies of Taiwan, with seven of the remaining 12 UN member states who are allies in the region.
Taiwan cut ties with Grenada 20 years ago after the Caribbean country switched dilomatic ties with China.
In the Caribbean, Haiti, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines are still diplomatic allies of Taiwan.
China and Taiwan have exchanged rates from the accusations of use of “dollar diplomacy”, compete for diplomatic recognition.
Taiwanese security officials have said that they believed that China will probably continue with the number of their diplomatic allies.