The United Nations should allow Taiwan to participate

UN officials speak often of joint solutions, solidarity, and inclusion in tackling the pressing issues of our time, and Taiwan is more than willing and able to take part in these efforts.

It is vital to make China and other authoritarian governments aware that they will be held accountable and to urge them to settle differences through peaceful means, writes Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, pictured.Photograph courtesy of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Canada

Opinion

BY JOSEPH WU

August 24, 2023

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a reminder of how autocracies care little about causing death and destruction. The war is a gross violation of human rights and the principle of peaceful settlement of international disputes as codified in the United Nations Charter, which h...

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