Taiwan Health Official: China Blocking Taiwan From the World Health Assembly is ‘Blocking the Health Rights of the Whole World’

Taiwan Health Official: China Blocking Taiwan From the World Health Assembly is ‘Blocking the Health Rights of the Whole World’
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen (L) listens to a masked soldier amid the coronavirus pandemic during her visit to a military base in Tainan, southern Taiwan, on April 9, 2020. Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images
Adam Michael Molon
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This week, one of Taiwan’s top public health officials addressed the issue of China blocking Taiwan from attending the World Health Assembly—the decision-making body for the World Health Organization—stating, “If you block Taiwan, you are not blocking Taiwanese health rights, you are blocking the health rights of the whole world.

Dr. Shiing Jer Twu, the Chairman of Taiwan’s Development Center for Biotechnology and former Health Minister of Taiwan, sat down with The Epoch Times at the iconic Grand Hotel in Taipei for an exclusive, in-depth interview.

Adam Michael Molon
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Adam Michael Molon is an American writer and journalist. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and undergraduate degrees in finance and Chinese language from Indiana University-Bloomington.
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