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(12 Jul 2017) Paraguay's president was welcome by his Taiwanese counterpart Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday as part of his three-day visit to the country.
Horacio Cartes and his delegation are scheduled to attend events on Wednesday commemorating sixty years of ties between Taiwan and the landlocked nation, Taiwan's only diplomatic ally in South America.
Cartes is offering a diplomatic lifeline to the island whose international breathing space is being steadily chipped away at by Beijing.
Cartes' three-day visit comes almost a month after Panama switched relations from Taipei to Beijing, leaving Taiwan with just 20 diplomatic allies.
China claims Taiwan as its own territory with no right to diplomatic recognition or other trappings of sovereignty.
Beijing renewed a campaign to diminish the island's global standing last year after cutting ties with the independence-leaning government of Tsai, who has refused to endorse China's insistence that Taiwan is part of China.

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