Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/05/20
By: Ku Chuan and Evelyn Kao

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Taipei, May 20 (CNA) A Japanese daily has expressed support in an editorial published Sunday for Taiwan to participate in the annual meeting of the World Health Assembly (WHA) this coming week, a meeting that Taiwan was blocked from attending by China.

The editorial in the Mainichi Shimbun, titled “China’s pressure to exclude Taiwan from the World Health Organization is unreasonable,” argued that Taiwan should be included in this year’s WHA meeting.

“The enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being, without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition,” according to the WHO’s Constitution, the editorial said.

It said China sees Taiwan’s people as “compatriots,” but by taking health issues hostage to coerce Taiwan into acknowledging Beijing’s “one China” principle, then isn’t China showing blatant disregard for the human rights of its “compatriots?” the editorial wondered.
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