If you want to learn Chinese and you are from any of the nations listed below there are many scholarship options available to you.

The map below really brings home what diplomatic isolation means… Taiwan currently has 23 “friends”. One of them, the Pacific nation of Tuvalu, has a population of around 12,000. Not that size matters of course.

Africa (4 states)

• Burkina Faso* (1994)
• Gambia* (1995)
• São Tomé and Príncipe* (1997)
• Swaziland* (1968.)

Europe (1 state)

• Vatican City * (1942)

Oceania (6 states)

• Kiribati (2003)
• Marshall Islands* (1998.)
• Nauru (1980–2002, 2005)
• Palau* (1999)
• Solomon Islands* (1983)
• Tuvalu (1979)

Americas (12 states)

• Belize* (1989)
• Dominican Republic* (1957)
• El Salvador* (1961)
• Guatemala* (1960)
• Haiti *(1956)
• Honduras* (1965)
• Nicaragua* (1990)
• Panama* (1954)
• Paraguay* (1957)
• Saint Kitts and Nevis* (1983)
• Saint Lucia (1984–1997, 2007)
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1981)

Dates indicate establishment or duration of relations; * indicates an embassy in Taipei

(Source: Wiki)

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