As this year’s World Health Assembly (WHA) comes to a close, Taiwan and Israel, two democracies with world-class economies and strong public health records, have once again been excluded and lambasted, respectively, by the global forum, continuing a familiar pattern of injecting politics into the center of discussions purportedly designed to improve public health.
The WHA, the World Health Organization’s decision-making body comprised of 194 member countries, convened in Geneva, Switzerland this past week (May 22-28) to tackle an ambitious agenda headlined by what critics decried as sweeping, controversial plans to combat future pandemics.
Noticeably absent from the week’s events was Taiwan, which China has prevented from attending the WHA since 2017.
China considers Taiwan a renegade province that must be reunified with the Chinese mainland and tries to isolate its democratically governed island neighbor from international organizations.On Monday, the WHA rejected a bid by 13 World Health Organization (WHO) members to […]
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