MANILA, Philippines — Taiwan’s continuous exclusion from several international bodies and meetings like the recent World Health Assembly (WHA) is a loss for the whole world amid the COVID-19 crisis, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen said on Tuesday in her official Twitter account.
Taiwan is not a member of the World Health Organization (WHO), which organizes the WHA. This is because of the one-China policy, under which countries recognize only the People’s Republic of China as an independent state with which they maintain formal relations.
“Taiwan’s exclusion from the World Health Assembly deprives the Taiwanese people of key health information, expertise, and the opportunity …
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