Taiwan is apparently still baffled why the UN insists on not including it as a member-state, asking whether its political structure and COVID-19 response, which differ from those of China, were not enough to qualify it as a separate entity. GabrielLaluINQ
“We cannot agree more,” Wu said in reference to the remarks that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made at the UN Economic and Social Council.
Wu noted that the response of the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan to the pandemic also differed, with borders being closed during the pandemic — which meant that there was no single government manning both areas. Then there’s the Republic of China, or Taiwan, with its capital Taipei. Taiwan claims that it has sovereignty over its own land, tracing its roots to the same government ran by nationalist Chiang Kai-shek who relocated to the said area during the civil war between his Kuomintang and the communists.
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