{"id":34,"date":"2007-09-23T09:22:06","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T09:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2007-09-23T09:22:06","modified_gmt":"2007-09-23T09:22:06","slug":"un-still-wont-recognise-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/un-still-wont-recognise-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"UN still won&#8217;t recognise Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <font size=\"2\">The United Nations has once again blocked Taiwan&#8217;s quest for membership.<\/font><font size=\"2\">\u00a0 A key UN committee rejected a proposal from Taiwan&#8217;s allies to put its bid on the agenda of the general assembly, which met in New York in mid-September. <\/font><font size=\"2\">This is the 15th consecutive year that Taiwan&#8217;s quest for membership of the United Nations has been rejected, even though, <\/font><font size=\"2\">until 1971, the Chinese seat at the UN was held by Taiwan under its formal title, the Republic of China.<\/font>\u00a0<font size=\"2\">\u00a0 It is shameful that the UN adopts such a stance, even on &#8220;legal grounds&#8221;, given its supposed role as a multilateral, impartial forum and the long-term and popular bid for recognition from Taiwanese.  <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Taiwan and mainland China split in 1949 amid civil war.\u00a0 <\/font><font size=\"2\">Taiwan became the stronghold of the nationalists and the mainland became the communist People&#8217;s Republic of China.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 China, which claims Taiwan as a province, is adamantly opposed to UN membership for the island, but should demonstrate its maturity by allowing an even-handed debate. <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations has once again blocked Taiwan&#8217;s quest for membership.\u00a0 A key UN committee rejected a proposal from Taiwan&#8217;s allies to put its bid on the agenda of the general assembly, which met in New York in mid-September. This is the 15th consecutive year that Taiwan&#8217;s quest for membership of the United Nations has &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/un-still-wont-recognise-taiwan\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UN still won&#8217;t recognise Taiwan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}