Commentary
The World Health Assembly (WHA), the World Health Organization’s decision-making body, will meet later this month for its annual summit. Over 190 countries will be represented at the conference, but Taiwan will not be one of them. The reason for this is because China’s political pressure has prevented Taiwan, a nation of 23 million people, from joining the WHO. However, in the interest of global health, Taiwan must be allowed as an observer to the WHA.