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For any country that wants to establish a diplomatic relationship with the PRC, it must first discontinue any formal relationship with the ROC by the request of the PRC government.

In order to compete for other countries ' recognition, each Chinese government has given money to a certain few small countries.

Both the PRC and ROC governments have accused each other of monetary diplomacy.

Several small African and Caribbean countries have established and discontinued diplomatic relationships with both sides several times in exchange for huge financial support from each side.