Ahead of the World Health Assembly (WHA) meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, which began on May 27, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken had been urging the World Health Organization (WHO) to invite China’s Taiwan region as an observer, just as it had between 2009 and 2016. “Taiwan’s continued exclusion from this preeminent global health forum,” Blinken opined, “undermines inclusive global public health cooperation and security” and “WHO’s goal of ‘Health for All.'” This request, Blinken also claimed, was “in line with our ‘one China policy.'”
