Taiwan's exclusion this year from the World Health Assembly shows that the one-China principle is the consensus of the international community and hyping up Taiwan-related issues at the WHA is unpopular, Zhu Fenglian, a spokeswoman for the State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office, said on Tuesday.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - The top U.S. diplomat in Taiwan on Wednesday signalled Washington was in no hurry to send COVID-19 vaccines to the island, noting its infection numbers remained comparatively low, although he said talks were continuing on the issue. After months of relative safety, Taiwan is battling a surge in domestic COVID-19 cases, but has only vaccinated around 1% of its more than 23 million people. Taiwan s government says millions more vaccines are on the way, and last week the health minister spoke to his U.S. counterpart to ask for help after President Joe Biden said he would send at least 20 million more COVID-19 vaccine doses abroad by the end of June. Brent Christensen, the outgoing de facto U.S. ambassador in Taipei, told reporters Taiwan s management of the pandemic had impressed everyone globally. We are very confident in the ability of Taiwan s health authorities to contain the latest outbreak, he said. I d also point out that many of Taiwan s neighbours in the region