- China opened an embassy in Nicaragua for the first time since 1990, acting just over three weeks since President Daniel Ortega’s government broke off relations with Taiwan.
- Ortega established relations with China in 1985, but after he lost the presidential election in 1990, the government of Nicaragua’s new president, Violeta Chamorro, recognized Taiwan.
- The Nicaraguan government broke relations with the Taiwanese on December 9 and last week it seized the former embassy and diplomatic offices of Taiwan.
