Washington must stop playing with fire over Taiwan China Daily | Updated: 2021-08-03 07:38 Chinese and US flags flutter outside a company building in Shanghai, on April 14, 2021. [Photo/Agencies]
The United States Senate Foreign Affairs Committee recently passed a bill urging the secretary of state to develop a strategy to help Taiwan regain its observer status in the World Health Organization.
By passing the bill, which is a gross violation of the one-China principle, the US Senate committee is not only throwing its weight behind Taiwan independence forces and provoking trouble across the Taiwan Straits, but also playing with fire.
Given that the WHO is a special United Nations organization and its members must be UN member states, Taiwan, as an integral part of China, cannot in any way become a WHO member.
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