WHO: Taiwan defies Beijing in full Sino-American showdown

Correspondent in Beijing

In the midst of a pandemic and as Sino-American tensions increase, the interminable Chinese civil war is once again at the heart of the World Health Organization (WHO). The little democratic Taiwan, an exemplary student facing the Covid-19, challenges the big authoritarian China, demanding with Washington's support an observer post at the WHO, whose annual meeting opens on Monday, under the gaze gathering of Beijing. The success of the island of 23 million inhabitants, which has recorded only 440 cases and only
7 deaths since the start of the coronavirus epidemic, is relaunching debates among Member States torn between health imperatives and pressures of the great powers.

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"They have something to teach the world, and all countries, including China, certainly want to know the secret of their success," said Winston Peters, New Zealand’s deputy prime minister , somewhat provocatively. who officially

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