Lai’s Eswatini stunt is a ‘diplomatic’ dead end

Taiwan leader Lai Ching-te’s early May visit to Eswatini was not ‘diplomacy’. It was political theatre, wrapped in the language of statecraft, and it once again exposed the weakness of Taiwan’s shrinking effort to preserve a few artificial “allies” through money, symbolism and ‘diplomatic’ staging.That is why the trip has drawn such criticism. It was […]