US: Nauru's Decision to Break with Taiwan 'Disappointing'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : According to Cleo Paskal, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, or FDD, Chinese offers to Nauru have been present for years, and the specifics of this deal were likely finalized before the Taiwan elections.
49% : The PRC's efforts to rewrite Taiwan's status at the United Nations intensified during the 1990s and early 2000s, coinciding with the island's democratization, according to an analysis by the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
46% : On October 25, 1971, the U.N. General Assembly passed U.N. Resolution 2758, which replaced the Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan's formal name) with the People's Republic of China (PRC) as a permanent member of the Security Council in the United Nations.
44% : While the resolution stated the representatives of the PRC government were the only legitimate representatives of China to the United Nations, it neither determined Taiwan's status nor said Taiwan was part of China.
37% : In Beijing, Chinese spokesperson Mao Ning said, "There is but one China in the world, Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory," citing United Nations resolution 2758.

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