Taiwan’s WHO participation critical for global healthcare: lessons from COVID-19

Canada, its G7 allies, and other like-minded nations, have once again failed to take meaningful action to ensure Taiwan’s inclusion in key meetings, like this week’s World Health Assembly.

Taiwan’s unfortunate absence at the World Health Assembly, which closed on May 31, highlights the disproportionate influence that the Communist Party of China continues to wield on the World Health Organization, and on the decisions of Western democratic governments, writes Susan Korah. World Health Organization photograph by Christopher Black

Opinion

BY SUSAN KORAH

June 2, 2021

Despite its exemplary management of COVID-19 when it first erupted, and the unequivocal support of G7 countries, Taiwan has once again been left out of the world’s most important healthcare summit. As the World Health Assembly convened this week for its annual meeti...

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