Macedonia is the 28th country with which the ROC has formal ties. Last year, the PRC succeeded in wooing away four ROC allies--South Africa, the Central African Republic, Guinea-Bissau, and Tonga. The ROC only won one in November, when formal ties were established with the Marshall Islands, an archipelago-state in the Pacific.
馬其頓是我國第二十八個邦交國，去年，中共在我國有限的邦交國中又挖走了四國（南非、中非、幾內亞比索、東加王國），我國直到去年十一月才扳回一城，與南太平洋島國馬紹爾群島建交，這次再傳捷報，也顯示我國打開整體外交困境的企圖心。