Commentary The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) influence over the United Nations is used overwhelmingly to weaken support for Taiwan around the world. In 1971, China was a backward, agrarian-based totalitarian country that could neither feed itself nor offer much to the world. Its primary mode of transportation was the bicycle, and in its self-isolation it had almost no influence in global affairs. It was too busy perpetrating the Cultural Revolution that would continue to tear the country apart for another five years. The US Helped China Rejoin the World Nonetheless, the most powerful nation on Earth, the United States, led the way for an impoverished China to join the U.N. and gain a seat on the U.N. Security Council. There were both geopolitical and economic reasons behind that decision. Regardless, U.N. membership certainly gave the communist regime, which had run the country into the ground, a much-needed boost in legitimacy. …