Posted on 03/06/2020 10:49:48 AM PST by SeekAndFind
As the coronavirus outbreak hastens its global spread, the United States has reiterated its support for Taiwan participating in the World Health Organization (WHO).
Taiwan for years has been barred from obtaining observer-status at the WHO because of the Chinese regime’s objections. Since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, the self-ruled island has further protested its exclusion from the U.N.’s health agency, saying this was hampering global efforts to contain the disease.
“This COVID-19 outbreak only further underlines the unacceptability of Taiwan being excluded from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Health Assembly because the People’s Republic of China blocks every attempt to do so,” Jonathan Fritz, deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, said during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Feb. 27.
“We continue to push back very, very hard against that with as many of our like-minded partners as possible, and I think our argument is only bolstered now by the outbreak,” Fritz added.
The Chinese regime considers Taiwan as part of its territory and has worked to block the island’s membership in many international bodies. Democratically-governed Taiwan says that it is separate from the communist regime and should thus have separate representation in international fora.
Taiwan, which has 34 confirmed cases of the virus, has been excluded from taking part in meetings about the outbreak held by the WHO Emergency Committee. But in a small diplomatic breakthrough, it was recently allowed to participate in an online technical meeting on the virus.
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This Island has also done a relatively outstanding effort in containing the spread of the virus.
Taiwan needs to get off their butts and declare independence from the thug regime in China!
Amen!
RE: Taiwan needs to get off their butts and declare independence from the thug regime in China!
And risk invasion?
Throw Red China out!
They’re lying through their teeth about all this anyway, so they’re no help.
Tell them that if we’ve got some college students we want run over, we’ll give them a call.
It’s criminal to keep Taiwan out.
I hope we can do more. Break the ChiCom hold on the WhO.
The very second China is capable of invading Taiwan they’ll do it anyway.
Also, why should the liberty of free people hinge on the opinions and threats of communist douchebags?
Taiwanese studies on the Coronavirus are some of the best I’ve read on the subject.
RE: China. Any nation that can hold a grudge this long is straight out of the depths of Hell.
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