Regime Watch: Beijing

Earlier this month, the World Health Organization assembled in Geneva, and for the twelfth year in a row Beijing and its toadies at the WHO blocked Taiwan’s efforts at meaningful participation by denying Taiwan even “observer” status.

From Rueters (May 19):

The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) assembly again rejected Taiwan’s bid for observer status on Monday, declaring that mainland China had responsibility for health issues affecting the island’s 23 million people.

The decision, taken on the opening day of the WHO’s six-day annual meeting, was the 12th year in a row that the United Nations agency had rebuffed Taiwan’s campaign.

It is quite amazing how willing so much of the world is to appease a communist regime like China at the expense of a representative democracy like Taiwan.

Rueters continues:

A proposal to drop the agenda item calling on Taiwan to be given observer status was adopted without a vote as part of a behind-the-scenes deal to give the issue an airing without devoting too much time to it.

“The reason that no one objected is that we all know what the outcome is,” said one diplomat. The assembly has a built-in majority against Taiwan, which draws support only from a couple of dozen small countries mainly in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific, plus the United States.

Taiwan is a member of the 152-nation World Trade Organisation but is excluded from most other international bodies because of Beijing’s one-China policy.

If we are going to have “international bodies” then perhaps it is time for the liberal democracies of the world to break off from the United Nations and form a new international body that includes Taiwan, but excludes China and the other thugocracies that inhabit the UN.