Taiwanese Official: WHO’s Snub Cost ‘Millions of Lives’

Taiwan’s de facto U.N. ambassador speaks out on the early warning that could have alerted the world to COVID-19.

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A woman wears a face mask at a metro station during the coronavirus pandemic in Taipei, Taiwan, November 18, 2020.

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One of Taiwan’s top diplomats charged in an interview with National Review that the impact of the coronavirus pandemic could have been significantly blunted had the world community listened to his country’s warnings from the start.

But the World Health Organization did not. And James Lee argues that his country’s exclusion from the U.N. system — something China has fought to intensify in recent years — played a role.

Jimmy Quinn

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Jimmy Quinn

Jimmy Quinn is the former national security correspondent for National Review.

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