Leacock’s comments in Taiwan suggest end of foreign policy controversy – iWitness News
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Leacock’s comments in Taiwan suggest end of foreign policy controversy – iWitness News
Summary:
- Deputy Prime Minister St. Clair Leacock of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) and Taiwan pushed to deepen ties from “friendship” to “family,” signaling a potential shift in SVG’s foreign policy under the Godwin Friday-led NDP administration away from the 10-year-old one-China policy.
- The NDP won a decisive 14-1 electoral victory in November, with ongoing questions about whether it would renounce or alter SVG’s diplomatic relations, which had previously favore
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