When SARS broke out in #Taiwan in ‘03, the WHO denied Taiwan’s request for the virus’ DNA to combat it.
The WHO told Taiwan’s health minister at the time to ask China.
#China refused the request and 137 people died in the following four months.
Taiwan has been denied WHO membership for five decades due to political reasons, says Dr. Chien-Jen, Taiwan’s Minister of Health at the time of the SARS outbreak.
Due to China’s opposition, #Taiwan has been excluded from almost all international organizations – such as U.N.'s convention on climate change, #Interpol, and the World Health Organization.
The #WHO hasn’t accepted Taiwan’s membership for over five decades, not because of Taiwan’s qualifications, but for political reasons.
This has cost both Taiwan and the world a heavy price, causing irreversible damage and the loss of countless innocent lives.
“#Taiwan’s opposition-controlled legislature passed changes on Tuesday that are seen as favoring #China and diminishing the power of the island’s president.
The changes pushed by the opposition Nationalist Party and its allies give the body greater power to control budgets, including defense spending that the party has blocked in what many see as a concession to China”
This weekend is perfect timing for the ‘axis of evil’ to exert their power to pursue expansionism. Putin likely told Xi that now would be opportune to threaten Taiwan. #Xi#Taiwan#China#PLO#AxisOfEvil “Not to alarm anyone, but China has surrounded Taiwan with warships and aircraft and the DoD has issued two statements about it over the past hour.” -P McLeary
A controversial bill to give Taiwan's legislature increased power passed a second reading on Friday. A third reading is required for the bills to become law
It took me a while, but I have successfully manipulated China's search engine, Baidu, to acknowledge, "Taiwan independent day" and "Independent Taiwan" without Baidu showing maps of Taiwan incorrectly being included as part of China. 😎
No idea how long it will last, but from America, with love.
(It was not hard. Their search ranks easily and all I needed was a few bots to favor the content I wanted)
L’armée chinoise a lancé de nouvelles manœuvres aériennes et navales ce jeudi 23 mai autour de l’île, dans la foulée de l’investiture du président taïwanais William Lai.
#Taiwan's military mobilised forces & said it was confident it could protect the island, after #China started 2 days of #punishment drills around Taiwan in what it said was a response to "separatist acts".
The exercises in #TaiwanStrait & around groups of Taiwan-controlled islands…,come 3 days after #Lai Ching-te took office as Taiwan's new #president, a man Beijing detests as a #separatist.
China, which views democratically governed #Taiwan as its own territory, has denounced Lai's inauguration speech on Mon, in which he called on #China to stop its threats & on Tues Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called #Lai "disgraceful".
Lai has repeatedly offered talks w/ China but been rebuffed. He says only Taiwan's people can decide their future, & rejects Beijing's #sovereignty claims.
The Eastern Theatre Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (#PLA) said it had started joint military drills, involving the army, navy, air force & rocket force, in areas around #Taiwan at 7:45AM.
The drills are being conducted in the Taiwan Strait, the north, south & east of Taiwan, as well as areas around the Taiwan-controlled islands of Kinmen, Matsu, Wuqiu & Dongyin, the command said in a statement.
An estimated crowd of 30,000 people gathered outside Taiwan's Legislative Yuan to protest against the KMT's attempts to force through legislation that would grant sweeping powers to the legislature and undermine Taiwan's democracy
Frozen Garlic reflects on Tsai Ing-wen's eight years in office with a focus on her relationship with the military
"I think one of the biggest changes over the last eight years has been how the DPP – party elites, party loyalists, and ordinary people with slight DPP sympathies – thinks about the military."