U.N. Blocked Latest Taiwan Outreach Effort

U.N. secretary general Antonio Guterres denied a request by allies of Taiwan to grant the country the ability to participate in U.N. activities last year, National Review has exclusively learned. He cited a 50-year-old U.N. resolution, using an interpretation favored by China, to block the effort.

Although Taiwan’s partners have sent such a request every year for the past five years amid a stepped-up Chinese diplomatic effort to isolate the island country, Guterres’s latest rejection is significant because it elicited an unusually blunt rejoinder from Taiwan.

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Jimmy Quinn

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U.N. secretary general Antonio Guterres denied a request by allies of Taiwan to grant the country the ability to participate in U.N. activities last year, National Review has exclusively learned. He cited a 50-year-old U.N. resolution, using an interpretation favored by China, to block the effort.

Although Taiwan’s partners have sent such a request every year for the past five years amid a stepped-up Chinese diplomatic effort to isolate the island country, Guterres’s latest rejection is significant because it elicited an unusually blunt rejoinder from Taiwan.