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They're open to almost anything for a price. for example, the ongoing and very tense standoff between china and taiwan. taiwan in some ways wanting to be an independent nation. china insisting taiwan will never be independent, it will always be part of china. in 2004, vanuatu decided they were going to recognize the independent nation of taiwan. opened up diplomatic relations with the capital, it taipei. china, of course, was furious. taiwan reportedly paid vanuatu $30 million for that recognition. and it's no small thing to make china, all of places, mad at you. you know what, $30 million is ...

Country even if they're small, one thing they've come up with is essentially decided to market their diplomatic relations to whoever wants to pay for them. what are the things an actual country can do that nobody else can do is have international relations. sounds dirty and it sometimes is. if you would like to have international relations of some kind with vanatu, open your checkbook and swivel your wrist. they're open to almost anything for a price. for example, the ongoing and very tense standoff between china and taiwan. taiwan in some ways wanting to be an independent nation. china insist...