Taiwan is preparing to lose another diplomatic ally

As relations between the two countries, which stretch back more than 80 years, deteriorated, Taiwan's foreign ministry said in a statement that it would recall its ambassador to Honduras "to express its strong dissatisfaction" with Honduras sending its foreign minister and a delegation to Beijing this week.

Taiwan's defenses are on alert following the incursion of Chinese warplanes into the defense zone

 

More than 30 Chinese warplanes entered Taiwan's air defense zone within six hours, the island's Defense Ministry announced on Thursday, in a new intensification of Chinese military incursion sorties within one day.