It is past time for co-operation to prevail over narrow political preferences

Taiwan needs the world, and as the COVID-19 situation proves, the world needs Taiwan.

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen, pictured in 2017, announced on April 1 her country would be donated 10 million face masks to countries hit hard by COVID-19. Photograph courtesy of the Office of the President, Republic of China (Taiwan)

Opinion

BY WINSTON WEN-YI CHEN

April 6, 2020

A senior adviser at the World Health Organization (WHO) was recently asked by a journalist about Taiwan’s success in combatting COVID-19 and whether the WHO will reconsider Taiwan’s engagement with the agency. Rather than answer the question, this senior adviser appeared to hang up the phone, do...

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