Paraguay says it’s not abandoning Taiwan. China has other plans.

Taiwan’s ambassador José Chih-Cheng Han in Asunción, Paraguay, Nov. 17, 2025. Paraguay today is the only South American country to maintain relations with Taiwan and has emerged as one of the most anti-China nations in Latin America. (María Magdalena Arrellaga/The New York Times) By LAURENCE BLAIR There are odd couples. Then there’s Taiwan and Paraguay. The high-tech island nation and its rural, landlocked South American ally sit on opposite sides of the Earth. United in 1957 by two military...

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