Costa Rica hopes to secure loans and sell bonds to China after breaking its ties with Taiwan and establishing relations with the Asian economic giant earlier this month, according to dpa. Costa Rican Finance Minister Guillermo Zuniga told the daily La Nacion on Tuesday that the two governments are looking into the possibilities. "We are talking and exploring," said Zuniga, who travelled to Beijing in late May with Foreign Minister Bruno Stagno. That trip to China laid the groundwork for the establishment of ties with Beijing on June 1 and the immediate breakup of relations with Taiwan, who for 63 years had counted Costa Rica as one of its main allies in
