China’s foreign affairs arms gloated on Monday about Beijing’s successful attempt to block the democratic nation of Taiwan from participating in next week’s World Health Assembly (WHA).
The WHA is the World Health Organization’s (W.H.O.) annual meeting of member nations, in which parties discuss issues of global public health concern. The 79th edition of the United Nations agency meetings is scheduled to begin on May 18 and touch on a variety of topics, including ensuring funding for the W.H.O. after America’s withdrawal in 2025, the highly contentious attempt to pass a pandemic treaty that empowers the W.H.O. over participating states, and the growing concern about a hantavirus outbreak linked to a cruise ship from Argentina.
Taiwan is a sovereign, democratic nation off the coast of China boasting one of the world’s most sophisticated health monitoring systems, in part as a result of having to respond to the 2002-2003
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