Beijing: China praised the Pacific island of Kiribati for cutting ties with Taiwan, the second diplomatic defection from Taipei to Beijing in less than a week.
The move is a coup for Beijing just weeks before it marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, and comes just days after the Solomon Islands also dropped diplomatic ties with the self-ruled island.
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