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Historical U.N. Documents Altered to Reflect Chinese Position on Taiwan: Think Tank

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Taiwan flags at a square ahead of the national day celebration in Taoyuan, Taiwan, October 8, 2021.

Ann Wang/Reuters

A recent report details key incidents in China’s painstaking effort to wipe politically inconvenient references to Taiwan from the U.N., in one case even securing the revision of a document released in 2000 to reflect Beijing’s line.

The German Marshall Fund compiled case studies documenting this U.N. pressure campaign in a study released last month.

Jimmy Quinn

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Jimmy Quinn

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

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