{"id":55408,"date":"2023-05-23T13:49:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T04:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/23\/outcry-as-world-health-organization-locks-out-taiwan-under-pressure-from-china"},"modified":"2023-05-23T22:13:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T13:13:41","slug":"outcry-as-world-health-organization-locks-out-taiwan-under-pressure-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55408","title":{"rendered":"Outcry as World Health Assembly locks out Taiwan under pressure from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taipei criticises \u2018unfair and unjust\u2019 decision to deny observer status despite support from US, UK, France and other countries<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Assembly has again rejected Taiwan\u2019s request to join its annual gathering amid routine objections from China and despite strong support from a coalition of countries including the US, UK, France and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The assembly \u2013 the forum through which the World Health Organization is governed \u2013 on Monday decided not to extend an invitation for Taiwan to attend the 21-30 May event in Geneva as an observer. China and Pakistan spoke against the bid, while the Marshall Islands, Belize, Nauru and Eswatini \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/04\/not-about-the-highest-bidder-the-countries-defying-china-to-stick-with-taiwan#:~:text=Taiwan's%20remaining%20allies%20are%20Belize,the%20only%20one%20in%20Europe.\">four of Taiwan\u2019s 13 formal diplomatic allies<\/a> \u2013 spoke in support.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/23\/outcry-as-world-health-organization-locks-out-taiwan-under-pressure-from-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taipei criticises \u2018unfair and unjust\u2019 decision to deny observer status despite support from US, UK, France and other countriesThe World Health Assembly has again rejected Taiwan\u2019s request to join its annual gathering amid routine objections from China &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,54,74,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-press-freedom","category-taiwan","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55418,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55408\/revisions\/55418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}