PNG signals for Taiwan, the frontier is now the office, not the embassy

Papua New Guinea announced that Taiwan's representative office would no longer be recognized within its jurisdiction. While PNG has recognized the People's Republic of China since 1976 and did not switch recognition, the move is significant because it targets Taiwan's network of unofficial representative offices, which are the real infrastructure of its international presence. The article argues this is the logical endpoint of a decade of escalating pressure on Taiwan's unofficial footholds, citing previous cases in Nigeria, Fiji, Hong Kong, Guyana, and Lithuania. The signal from PNG is that Taiwan's unofficial office network itself is now the target, further shrinking Taiwan's international space.