Following China’s desire to strengthen transplant organ sharing and cooperation with Taiwan and other countries, opponents of the plan have expressed alarm and condemnation in Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea, pointing to China’s practice of forced organ harvesting from living persons.
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) unofficial spokesperson on organ transplant, Huang Jiefu said in January 2023 that mainland China should “actively promote the organ sharing mechanism with Taiwan,” and establish “organ donation and transplant cooperation [with other countries] through the One Belt One Road program.”
Huang, 77, was the Deputy Minister of Health from 2001 to 2013. A liver transplant surgeon, Huang is now the head of the China Organ Transplant Development Foundation….