TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A day before online registration for this year's World Health Assembly (WHA) closes, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that no progress had been made in Taiwan's efforts to gain an invitation to the global summit. The Foreign Ministry stated yesterday that Taiwan still had not received an invitation to the decision-making summit of the World Health Organization (WHO), and that "there is no new progress." Since 2009, Taiwan has attended the WHA under the designation of Chinese Taipei, under an agreement between the then-ruling Kuomintang administration and the government in Beijing and the World Health Organization. Last year, Taiwan received an invitation to the WHA only right before the deadline for online registration ended. If Taiwan is barred from participating in the WHA, this strategic confrontation will evolve into a strategic conflict, he said.

Source: The China Post May 07, 2017 15:56 UTC