Commentary Beautiful Formosa is rising! Taiwan has a free and fair election system, a competitive media environment, a wide variety of cultures, and diverse religious beliefs. Its economic growth rate in 2020 reached 3.11 percent, the highest among developed countries. Taiwan is listed as a middle power by the French Strategic Research Foundation and rated as a “full democracy” country by the 2020 Democracy Index ranking published by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Despite all this, Taiwan is still not a full member of the World Health Organization, nor even able to attend as an observer. Taiwan is excluded from the World Health Organization mainly because of the Chinese regime’s illegal claims to sovereignty over the self-ruled island nation. It is attempting to use its “One China Principle” to annex a country that it has never controlled. The Chinese Communist Party’s claim to Taiwan is not only inconsistent with historical facts, …