The Republic of China, one of the founding great powers of the United Nations Security Council along with the UK, France, the US, and the USSR, ultimately could not resist the reality of international politics, and at one point was reduced to having formal relations with only 22 countries.
曾經和英法美蘇世界四強並列聯合國安理會常任理事國的中華民國，終於難敵國際政治的現實，邦交國一度只剩二十二國。