Taiwan must turn toward real allies

Sasha B Chhabra is a frequent media commentator/opinion columnist based in Taipei at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research.

To be a Taiwanese diplomat is to be lonely, with most states diplomatically shunning the embattled island nation. Yet a recent feature in Nikkei Asia has highlighted the significant expansion of foreign diplomatic presence in Taiwan, with growing contingents from the United States, Japan and the United Kingdom, reflecting the rising importance with which these countries view Taiwan.