China Ask Indian Media To Support One China Principle – Burning Issues – Free PDF Download

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•  Taiwan is campaigning furiously to attend the next World Health Assembly (WHA) meeting to be held from May 18.
• China — which claims Taiwan as its province with no right to its own diplomatic representation on the global stage and in international organizations such as the World Health Organization — objects to this.

WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY

• The World Health Assembly (WHA) is the forum through which the World Health Organization (WHO) is governed by its 194 member states. It is the world’s highest health policy setting body and is composed of health ministers from member states.
•  The members of the WHA generally meet every year in May in Geneva at the Palace of Nations, the location of WHO Headquarters.

UNDERSTANDING HISTORY

•  Taiwan joined WHA meetings as an observer from 2009 to 2016
•  Taiwan was invited as an observer to the WHA for 8 years between 2008 and 2016, with the name of Chinese Taipei. However, since the 71st WHA in 2018, China Mainland has continued to block Taiwan’s participation in WHA as an observer

WHAT INDIA OUGHT TO CONSIDER

• China routinely thwarts India diplomatically at UN bodies and international fora, including over sanctioning Pakistan-based terrorists China has even began to assert dominance over the India-China border during this time

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