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...Taiwan has been pushing for an invitation every year since 1997, only to have their application be repeatedly blocked by China, which sees the democratic island as a Chinese province and therefore ineligible to participate alongside other sovereign states. "It's an inevitable development," says Political Scientist Yang Tai-shuenn of Taipei's Chinese Culture University. "The pressure from the international community has been accumulating. Health is a universal value China cannot continue to reject...
...Yang says China's nod to let Taiwan in this time was a gesture of goodwill. The WHA is a relatively low-risk international body for China to allow Taiwan to enter, as it is a health body, without strong political implications that could allow Taiwan to be treated as an independent nation. Taiwan has been invited to participate under the agreed upon name "Chinese Taipei" - the same name Taiwan uses for its Olympic team...
...Staff writer Helen X. Yang can be reached at hxyang@fas.harvard.edu...
...only go to college in Boston once,” he said. “Why not try to run the Boston Marathon?” —Staff writer Victor W. Yang can be reached at vyang@fas.harvard.edu...
...story here that in its way, in some ways, bigger than the case,” said Nesson. “And it’s the telling of this story that will get the problem fixed.” —Staff Writer Helen X. Yang can be reached at hxyang@fas.harvard.edu...