Move risks further reducing Taiwan's pool of allies.
The U.S. has no formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan but is its most important international backer and arms supplier, a consistent source of friction in Sino-U.S. relations.
Castro's statement, made on Twitter, comes ahead of Tsai's planned trip to Central America next month where she is expected to visit Guatemala and Belize. More sensitively, she willthe United States and meet U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, which is likely to hugely anger China. Taiwan has accused China of luring its allies with pledges of massive amounts of loans, which Beijing denies.
A source familiar with the situation in Taiwan said the island needed to exhaust "every possible means" to maintain diplomatic ties with Honduras.China's Foreign Ministry has yet to comment, but the Chinese ambassador in Mexico, Zhang Run, tweeted that the one-China principle, which holds that China and Taiwan are part of one country, is the consensus of the international community.
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