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Taiwan yesterday condemned China for interfering in other nations’ sovereignty and foreign policy through political coercion after Beijing sanctioned ministers from Paraguay and Belize over their diplomatic relations with Taiwan.

Paraguay and Belize are two of just 12 countries to maintain formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan.

At a routine news briefing in Beijing yesterday, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Mao Ning (毛寧) said the sanctions against Paraguayan Minister of Information and Communication Technologies Gustavo Villate and Belizean Minister of Foreign Affairs Francis Fonseca were designed to “penalize them and serve as a warning to others.”

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