(北京/萨尔瓦多综合讯)海峡两岸上周重启“外交战”后,蔡英文下月出访中南美洲四个友邦之际会否遭遇对方倒戈之辱备受关注。尽管萨尔瓦多外长马丁内斯(Hugo Martinez)称该国与台关系目前未生变,但同时也表示将留意大陆所释放的信号,话语间留下悬念。
路透社26日引述马丁内斯受访时称:“我们的外交政策、我们与台湾海峡两岸的关系,暂时仍然保持一样。”
但他也说:“我们尚未收到来自大陆的信号,表示他们有兴趣改变双边关系的层级,但我们将留意事态会如何演变。”
China has not signaled a desire to change its relationship with El Salvador, El Salvador’s foreign Minister said on Monday, as his country prepares to host Taiwan’s president after she held a controversial call with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s visit to El Salvador next month comes after Trump angered Beijing by speaking to Tsai in a break with decades of precedent that cast doubt on his incoming administration’s commitment to Beijing’s “one China” policy.
“We haven’t received any signal from China that there is any interest in changing the level of relationship, but we will pay attention to how things evolve,” El Salvadoran Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez said in an interview.
China has called on the United States to prevent Tsai from transiting there on her way to visit three diplomatic allies in Central America.
Tsai’s Jan. 12-13 visit is aimed at strengthening ties between El Salvador and Taiwan, Martinez said, as Tsai seeks to shore up alliances in Central America. She will also visit Guatemala and Nicaragua.
During the visit, Tsai will hold talks with El Salvadoran President and former guerilla commander Salvador Sanchez Ceren before meeting Salvadoran and Taiwanese businessmen to encourage investment.
In 2014, El Salvador and Taiwan signed a five-year, $50 million cooperation agreement.
China is deeply suspicious of Tsai, who it thinks wants to push for the formal independence of Taiwan, a self-governing island that Beijing regards as a renegade province to be brought back under its control by force if necessary.
Taiwanese media has reported that Tsai would seek to meet Trump’s team during a possible transit stop but the Taiwanese President’s Office has declined to comment.
“For the moment, our foreign policy and our relationships remain the same on both sides of the strait of Taiwan,” Martinez said, referring to the waterway that separates Taiwan from China.
Tsai will leave Taiwan on Jan. 7 and return on Jan. 15.
(中央社記者葉素萍台北28日電)蔡英文明年1月7日將出訪中美洲4友邦,今天有媒體報導,其中2國有危機。總統府今天說,總統這次出訪邦交國與我國邦誼穩固,相關籌備事宜也都周延順利。
蔡明年1月7日到15日啟動9天8夜「英捷專案」出訪中美洲4友邦尼加拉瓜、宏都拉斯、瓜地馬拉及薩爾瓦多。
今天有媒體報導指出,其中2國有危機。
總統府晚間指出,報導內容純屬片面臆測,都不是事實。有關總統此次出訪邦交國與我國邦誼穩固,外交部早多次說明,相關籌備事宜也都周延順利,並無該報導所稱情事。為免錯誤報導混誤輿情,造成媒體錯引,特此說明。