Taipei up to its tricks again with WHA farce

Uninvited guests from Taiwan are again staging the three-year-old "Taiwan is being bullied" show in Geneva on the sidelines of the 72nd World Health Assembly, in a bid to help Taipei gain international recognition.

The island's absence from the WHA meeting will harm public health and the well-being of its residents and create an epidemic prevention risk, they claim.

If, as they allege, Taiwan is indeed being excluded from the global public health regime and denied due access to the corresponding resources, it certainly would constitute a deplorable humanitarian problem with fearful potential.