Commentary
On May 13, President Joe Biden signed a bill to direct the secretary of state to develop a strategy to regain observer status for Taiwan in the World Health Organization (WHO).
Why is this significant?
A definition of diplomatic warfare is the use of diplomacy to influence international bodies (such as the United Nations), other nations, and domestic audiences to support a course of action that benefits one nation while impairing another country.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wants to use diplomatic warfare to isolate Taiwan from the rest of the world to the point that no country will recognize and come to assist it in times of crisis. Below are examples of how the United States pushed back on the CCP’s diplomatic warfare against Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC)….