Commentary Taiwan’s Foreign Minister blew up on May 11 by denouncing China’s “shameless lies” related to Beijing’s block on the island’s very reasonable, indeed essential, attempts to join the World Health Organization (WHO). Every sovereign nation, and then some, should have a seat at the public health table. The G7 group of countries, including the United States, Japan, Britain, France, Germany, Canada, and Italy, have called for Taiwan’s attendance at the World Health Assembly, which is the WHO’s decision-making body. Taiwan should not only be invited to attend the upcoming meeting on May 24, but should be admitted to WHO as a full member. Taiwan was the first country to identify SARS-CoV-2 to the WHO, the first to start screening flights from Wuhan, on Jan. 1, 2020, and a pioneer in creating apps to help defeat the disease. The country never went into lockdown, yet, is in the bottom percentile …
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