Taiwan claims that Nauru flipped to the PRC because Australia isn't paying them enough to detain folks who turn up on our shores seeking asylum.
Leaving the ethics of Australia paying the tiny, poor nation of Nauru to house asylum seekers for us to one side, paying $350m/yr to operate a detention facility, plus $6m year for every person actually detained there, seems like a pretty damn good deal for
someone, just not the Australian taxpayer. Though it seems what we were really paying for all these years was Nauru's recognition of the ROC...