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BEIJING/TAIPEI, May 24 (Reuters) - The Chinese government on Monday offered to urgently send COVID-19 vaccines and medical experts to Taiwan to help it battle a sharp rise in coronavirus infections, but drew a swift and angry response from Taipei.
China and Chinese-claimed Taiwan have sparred repeatedly during the pandemic.
Taipei has accused Beijing of spreading fake news and trying to limit its access to the World Health Organization (WHO), while Beijing says Taipei is trying to politicise the pandemic for political gain.
After months of relative safety from the pandemic, Taiwan is dealing with a spike in COVID-19 cases and is rapidly running out of vaccines, having only received slightly more than 700,000 to date for its more than 23 million people.
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BEIJING/TAIPEI China on Monday offered to urgently send COVID-19 vaccines to Taiwan to help it battle a sharp rise in coronavirus infections, drawing an angry response from Taipei and a swipe from Washington, which said U.S. vaccines did not have strings attached.
China and Chinese-claimed Taiwan have sparred repeatedly during the pandemic.
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Taipei has accused Beijing of spreading fake news and trying to limit its access to the World Health Organization (WHO), while Beijing says Taipei is trying to politicize the pandemic for political gain.
Taiwan needs a new constitution. It has needed one since the end of World War II, when its citizens should have had the right to self-determination like any other colonials. That is when its current “limbo status” was created and from which it continues.
Yes, Taiwan needs a new constitution, a Taiwan constitution.
Some things can stare one in the face, and yet their reality remains hidden. It remains hidden because the pressing needs of the time and other distractions too often demand resolution. That has been Taiwan’s ongoing problem, but now that the nation has stabilized in its democracy, a
2021/05/22 10:00 (Flickr, Cesar Tardaguila photo) (Flickr, Cesar Tardaguila photo) KAOHSIUNG (Taiwan News) Earlier this week, the South China Morning Post published an editorial on the COVID-19 crisis in Taiwan. The Hong Kong-based, English-language newspaper, used to be highly regarded around the world for its frank and probing journalism. But much has changed since the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCPs) annexation of Hong Kong and one thing that appears to have been lost is a free and independent press. Once upon a time, a South China Morning Post editorial on a virus outbreak might have offered support and the hand of friendship, as well as unpicking any political or systemic faults that were in evidence. Now we see an editorial that could have been written by the 50 Cent Army or even dictated from the desk of a Beijing bureaucrat.