In a joint press conference held on May 3, more than a dozen Taiwan-affiliated government and community organizations in Northern California called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to allow Taiwan’s participation.
The event, hosted at the Culture Center of the San Francisco Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Milpitas, was held ahead of the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA) scheduled to take place May 19–27 in Geneva.
TECO is the de facto embassy of Taiwan’s government in the United States.
The WHA, the WHO’s highest decision-making body, has excluded Taiwan from participation since 2017 amid political pressure from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). At the May 3 event, Taiwanese officials and community leaders challenged Beijing’s narrative and urged the international community to uphold inclusivity in global health governance….