Taipei order may put SA in dilemma

Beijing is starting to flex its diplomatic muscle in South Africa by leaning on the ANC to order the Taiwan Liaison Office (TLO) to move from Pretoria... because Taipei does not have full diplomatic relations with us.

The story about the order to the Taiwanese broke just as China finished a series of threatening manoeuvres off the coast of Taiwan - the island republic which Beijing considers part of its sovereign territory.

It also followed not long after international research confirmed the essential despotic nature of the Chinese Communist Party by assessing that China has the most draconian internet restrictions in the world.