Two US senators have heavily criticised South Africa’s directive for Taiwan to relocate its Pretoria-based Taipei Liaison Office to the City of Johannesburg.
The ongoing diplomatic squabble sparked by South Africa’s directive for Taiwan to relocate its offices to Joburg has sucked in US lawmakers, amid an ongoing diplomatic row over what US President Donald Trump called “confiscation” of land.
Last year, IOL reported that the Department of International Relations (Dirco) had communicated with Taiwan to relocate the liaison office from Pretoria as South Africa does not recognise Taiwan as a bona fide State, but an inalienable part of the People’s Republic of China.
The directive for Taiwan to move from Pretoria has once again been thrust into the limelight, as the deadline given by Dirco to Taiwan approaches next month.
