1 Introduction 2 China and Taiwan Relations with the Underdeveloped World
NOTES 1 Introduction 1. Those nation-states in the Caribbean basin with formal relations with Taipei are Belize, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent and the Grenadines. 2. Both the United States and United Kingdom have made efforts to update their international broadcasting outputs in recent years in line with the global com- munications environment. The Smith–Mundt Act is currently in a period of congressional reform and the BBC World Service has been incorporated into the main BBC structure. The effect on output remains to be determined. 2 China and Taiwan Relations with the Underdeveloped World 1. Taiwan has not asked its formal diplomatic allies to raise the motion at the UN since the agreement of the diplomatic truce in 2008. This will be discussed in greater detail later. Taiwan currently participates in the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (APEC) under the designation “Chinese Taipei”. It also has observer status at the World Health Organization (WHO). 2. In Africa the PRC is the incumbent in all but four nation-states—Burkina Faso, San Tome and Principe, Swaziland, and The Gambia. 3. Bahamas (1989), Central African Republic (1991), Grenada (1989), Guinea-Bissau (1990), Lesotho (1990), Liberia (1989), and Nicaragua (1990). 4. Historian Evelyn Hu-De Hart provides a somewhat satirical commentary on the assertions of Menzies: “I don’t have any grand book about discoveries to rival Menzies’ fertile and, some would say, fervid imagination. I will not succumb to flights of fancy as—given my occupation as a professional historian—I do not 204 Notes have the freedom to imagine and invent, to speculate freely and extrapolate as widely as others do” (Hu-De Hart, 2007: 114).
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