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Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te arrived in Eswatini on May 2, 2026, after China pressured three Indian Ocean nations to revoke overflight permission for his plane. The visit to Taiwan's sole remaining African ally highlights both Beijing's intensifying campaign to isolate Taipei and the structural vulnerabilities of Taiwan's small-state diplomacy, which has seen its formal partner count fall from 68 in 1971 to just 12 today.