A crowd of more than 100 Taiwanese Americans gathered on May 14 in San Francisco to raise the public’s awareness of Beijing’s malicious intentions to block Taiwan’s access to the upcoming World Health Assembly (WHA) meeting.
The WHA is the governing body of the U.N.’s World Health Organization (WHO) and is scheduled to meet for its 75th annual meeting at the United Nations Office in Geneva from May 22 to 28. It will also be the WHA’s first in-person meeting since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Taiwan has sent an application to the WHA for attending the meeting as an observer. However, the WHA has not yet responded to Taiwan’s request due to political pressure from Beijing, which sees the self-ruled island as a threat to its legitimacy.
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