 Taiwan had offered $200 million in aid to Liberia for education and infrastructure in exchange for this recognition.The PRC reestablished relations with Liberia on August 10, 1993 and opened an embassy in Monrovia, making Liberia one of the few nations which established diplomatic ties to both the PRC and ROC.The first Liberian ambassador to China was John Daniel Cox, from 1977 to 1981.