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Why Taiwan has become a problem for WHO

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If they lie to us about masks and can’t properly monitor the risk of a potential pandemic, what good are they exactly? Defund them and move on. There is too much rot in these institutions for them to relied on.

It is sad to see orgs like WHO are being controlled by China. He could have given better answer than just skipping question and terminating interview. This guy looks scared as hell to talk anything against China. If this is the situation, how can one trust WHO for truth about covid-19 ? Now I am doubtful about all their counts.

You decided to mistrust an entire global organization because one guy duffed an interview? Its spelled out clearly in the article: WHO membership is only given to countries that are members of the United Nations - which does not recognize Taiwan - or whose applications are approved by the World Health Assembly.

Yes the WHO is likely mistreating Taiwan, but its based on the UN and global politics, nothing else. China isn't controlling the WHO. China is just a major player in geopolitics whose reach affects the UN, which affects the WHO.

China is blocking Taiwan's membership in the UN, and is blocking them having any recognized status, for any international organisation.

That's true. While yes the WHO is following regulations, they're following regulations that were created to exclude the Republic of China from it in order to entice the PRC to join it. The PRC gave multinational organizations such as the WHO this condition for accepting the invitation to join, and multinationals greatly desired the membership of the PRC.

The WHO had the choice: accept the Chinese Communist Party's demand to exclude Taiwan, or be shunned by the PRC. The problem isn't necessarily with the WHO, it's with the CCP.

Health organizations should keep themselves away from politics.

From aritcle - Taiwanese official Stanley Kao has also said the island has been denied permission to attend the World Health Assembly's annual meetings in recent years.

This is really bad. We are dealing here with lives of people. Hope you understand gravity of current situation.

> You decided to mistrust an entire global organization because one guy duffed an interview.

Looking at situation in China, Yes. China has neither a free press or open access to the internet. So there is not any way to verify covid-19 counts in China. If WHO is so scared to China, how can we trust WHO in Chinese count ?

> Yes the WHO is likely mistreating Taiwan, but its based on the UN and global politics, nothing else.

Epidemic won't see any borders and politics. Hope WHO understands this soon. They are representing world not any country.

The leader of WHO blindly praises everything that China does.

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