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Al Jazeera Staff

Honduras says plans to open diplomatic relations with China

Honduran President Xiomara Castro said she was supportive of the switch while she was on the campaign trail [File: Fredy Rodriguez/Reuters]

Honduras President Xiomara Castro has said she wants her country to open official diplomatic ties with China, in a move that would end its official relationship with the self-ruled island of Taiwan.

Castro, who said during her election campaign in 2021 that she would switch ties to Beijing before later backtracking, wrote on Twitter on Tuesday night that she had instructed her foreign minister to begin the process of recognising the People’s Republic of China.

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