TAIPEI—China cannot dictate who Somaliland can have relations with as it was a sovereign nation, the foreign minister of the breakaway Somali region said on Friday during a trip to Taiwan. Somaliland broke away from Somalia in 1991 but has not gained widespread international recognition for its independence. The region has been mostly peaceful while Somalia has grappled with three decades of civil war. Somaliland and Taiwan, which is also diplomatically isolated, set up representative offices in each other’s capitals in 2020, angering Beijing and Mogadishu. The Chinese regime claims Taiwan as its own, despite the fact that Taiwan is a de facto independent country, with its own military, democratically-elected government, and constitution. Strategically situated on the Horn of Africa, Somaliland borders Djibouti, where the Chinese communist regime maintains its first ever overseas military base. Speaking to reporters, Somaliland Foreign Minister Essa Kayd said the Chinese regime cannot dictate to …