Taiwan Says China ‘Out of Control’ as It Loses El Salvador as Ally to Beijing

A honor guard holds a Taiwan flag before the arrival of Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen at the Oscar Arnulfo Romero International Airport in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador, on Jan. 12, 2017. Jose Cabezas/Reuters

TAIPEI/BEIJING—Taiwan is vowing to fight China’s “increasingly out of control” behavior after Taipei lost another ally to Beijing, when El Salvador became the third country this year to switch allegiances to China.

Taiwan now has formal relations with only 17 countries worldwide, with most of them in Central America and the Pacific.