The visit by Paraguay’s president to Taiwan this week offers a diplomatic lifeline to the self-governing island democracy whose international breathing space is being steadily chipped away at by Beijing.

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“As far as the (Taiwanese) government is concerned, there is a growing sense of unfairness and unreasonableness by Beijing,” said Alan Romberg, director of the East Asia program at The Stimson Center, a Washington think tank. “It is hard to see a way out.”

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